From acid rain to toxic snow: Volvo Environment Prize Lecture 1998

Ambio

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 350-355

  Schindler, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ACID RAIN; AIR QUALITY; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION QUALITY;

EID: 0032790799     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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58. I thank the Volvo Foundation for this honour. Numerous colleagues have contributed to the work described here. I particularly thank Jules Blais, Brian Parker, David Donald, Vince St. Louis and Derek Muir for recent collaboration. This work was largely funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Margaret Foxcroft assisted with preparation of the manuscript. Eville Gorham made several suggestions for improving the manuscript.