Atmospheric transport of pollutants from North America to the North Atlantic Ocean
Ground-based measurements strongly support the hypothesis that pollutant materials of anthropogenic origin are being transported over long distances in the midtroposphere and are a significant source of acid rain, acid snow, trace metal deposition, ozone and visibility-reducing aerosols in remote oc...
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ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:19840049858 2023-05-15T17:26:19+02:00 Atmospheric transport of pollutants from North America to the North Atlantic Ocean Harriss, R. C. Browell, E. V. Sebacher, D. I. Gregory, G. L. Hinton, R. R. Beck, S. M. Mcdougal, D. S. Shipley, S. T. Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available Apr 19, 1984 http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19840049858 unknown http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19840049858 Accession ID: 84A32645 Copyright Other Sources 45 Nature; 308; 722-724 1984 ftnasantrs 2012-02-15T15:52:50Z Ground-based measurements strongly support the hypothesis that pollutant materials of anthropogenic origin are being transported over long distances in the midtroposphere and are a significant source of acid rain, acid snow, trace metal deposition, ozone and visibility-reducing aerosols in remote oceanic and polar regions of the Norhern Hemisphere. Atmospheric sulphur budget calculations and studies of acid rain on Bermuda indicate that a large fraction of pollutant materials emitted into the atmosphere in eastern North America are advected eastwards over the North Atlantic Ocean. The first direct airborne measurements of the vertical distribution of tropospheric aerosols over the western North Atlantic is reported here. A newly developed airborne differential adsorption lidar system was used to obtain continuous, remotely sensed aerosol distributions along its flight path. The data document two episodes of long-distance transport of pollutant materials from North America over the North Atlantic Ocean. Other/Unknown Material North Atlantic NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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Ground-based measurements strongly support the hypothesis that pollutant materials of anthropogenic origin are being transported over long distances in the midtroposphere and are a significant source of acid rain, acid snow, trace metal deposition, ozone and visibility-reducing aerosols in remote oceanic and polar regions of the Norhern Hemisphere. Atmospheric sulphur budget calculations and studies of acid rain on Bermuda indicate that a large fraction of pollutant materials emitted into the atmosphere in eastern North America are advected eastwards over the North Atlantic Ocean. The first direct airborne measurements of the vertical distribution of tropospheric aerosols over the western North Atlantic is reported here. A newly developed airborne differential adsorption lidar system was used to obtain continuous, remotely sensed aerosol distributions along its flight path. The data document two episodes of long-distance transport of pollutant materials from North America over the North Atlantic Ocean. |
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Atmospheric transport of pollutants from North America to the North Atlantic Ocean |
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Atmospheric transport of pollutants from North America to the North Atlantic Ocean |
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Atmospheric transport of pollutants from North America to the North Atlantic Ocean |
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Atmospheric transport of pollutants from North America to the North Atlantic Ocean |
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Atmospheric transport of pollutants from North America to the North Atlantic Ocean |
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atmospheric transport of pollutants from north america to the north atlantic ocean |
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