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Seasonal Snowcovers: Physics, Chemistry, Hydrology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
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Seasonal Snowcovers: Physics, Chemistry, Hydrology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
Series: NATO Science Series C, 211
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In recent years, much concern has been expressed on the deleterious
effects that anthropogenic emissions of acidic pollutants have on
ecosystems of both industrialized countries and remote areas of the
world. In many of these regions, seasonal snowcover is a major
factor in the transfer of atmospheric pollutants, either to
terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems or to the more permanent
reservoirs of glaciers and ice sheets. The recognition of the role
that seasonal snowcovers can thus play in the chemical dynamics of
whole ecosystems was recently echoed by the Committee on Glaciology
of the National Research Council (National Academy of Sciences,
National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine)
which recommended that studies on "Impurities in the snowpack,
their discharge into runoff, and management of the problem" be
rated at the highest prority level (ref. a). It is in this context
that the Advanced Research Institute (ASI) brought together
scientists active in the fields of snow physics, snow chemistry and
snow hydrology. The programme was structured so as to facilitate
the exchange of information and ideas on the theories for the
chemical evolution of seasonal snowcovers and snowmelt and on the
impact of the chemical composition of the meltwaters on the
different components of hydrological systems. As a consequence the
ASI also attracted participants from potential users of the
information that was disseminated; these were particularly
concerned with the effects of snowmelt and snowcover on terrestrial
biota and those of lakes and streams.
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