The effects of climate change on the nitrogen cycle and acid deposition

Conference · Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:6430198

Penner, J E; Walton, J J ^[1]; Graboske, B C ^[2]

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1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
2. California Univ., Berkeley, CA (USA)

Increases in greenhouse gases are expected to lead to a number of changes to the atmosphere which may impact regional and global chemical cycles. With the increasing awareness of climate change and the possibility of global chemical changes to the atmosphere, it becomes important to ask whether these changes to global climate and chemical cycles might benefit or hinder control programs aimed at reducing acid deposition. In the following, we review several possible changes to climate that may be expected to impact the global cycle of reactive nitrogen. We then use our global model of the reactive nitrogen cycle to estimate the effects of several of the more important changes on the continental-scale deposition of nitric acid. 7 refs., 1 tab.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER; USEPA
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6430198
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC-106083; CONF-910108-1; ON: DE91002785
• Resource Relation: Conference: 7. international conference on interactive information and processing systems for meteorology, oceanography, and hydrology, New Orleans, LA (USA), 13-18 Jan 1991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
TEMPERATURE EFFECTS
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
NITRIC ACID
DEPOSITION
NITROGEN CYCLE
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS
BIOMASS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CLIMATES
FOSSIL FUELS
LIGHTNING
NITROGEN OXIDES
SOILS
STRATOSPHERE
CHALCOGENIDES
ELECTRIC DISCHARGES
ENERGY SOURCES
FUELS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INORGANIC ACIDS
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
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