Monitoring the results of Canada/U.S.A. acid rain control programs: Some Lake responses

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 88, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 3-19

  Jeffries, Dean S ^a   Brydges, T G ^b   Dillon, P J ^c   Keller, W ^d  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acid rain; Acidifying emissions; Base cations; Lake acidification; Modeling; Recovery; Sulphate; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ALKALINITY; DEPOSITION; DROUGHT; PH EFFECTS; SOILS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS;

ACID RAIN;

CATION; SULFATE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ACID RAIN; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; EMISSION CONTROL; LAKE WATER; PH; SULFUR DIOXIDE; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER POLLUTION;

ACID RAIN; ACIDIFICATION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; ALKALINITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CANADA; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAKE; PH MEASUREMENT; POLLUTION CONTROL; REDUCTION; REVIEW; SOIL POLLUTION; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ACID RAIN; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CANADA; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRY; SULFUR DIOXIDE; UNITED STATES; WATER SUPPLY;

CANADA;

EID: 0141614808     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025563400336     Document Type: Review

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