- Acid Deposition (Acid Rain)
General information and scientific reports from Canada's Atmospheric Science Division.
www.ns.ec.gc.ca/msc/as/as_acid.html
- Acid Deposition and Precipitation
Formation, deposition information for Canada and British Columbia, suggested solutions, and links to other Canadian and U.S. resources.
royal.okanagan.bc.ca/mpidwirn/atmosphereandclimate/acidprecip.html
- Acid Rain and Our Nation's Capital
USGS report looking at the effects of acid precipitation on the buildings and monuments of Washington D.C.
pubs.usgs.gov/gip/acidrain
- Acid Rain Data and Reports - USGS
Hosts online USGS data and reports on acid rain, atmospheric deposition, and precipitation chemistry.
bqs.usgs.gov/acidrain
- Acid Rain Revisited
(PDF)
Report examining the advances in scientific understanding of the phenomenon since the passage of the 1970 and 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments.
www.hbrook.sr.unh.edu/hbfound/report.pdf
- Environment Canada: Acid Rain
Includes facts from Environment Canada related to air quality and what's being done to respond to acid rain in Canada.
www.ec.gc.ca/acidrain
- FAQ - Acid Rain
From Environment Canada's A Primer on Environmental Citizenship.
www.ns.ec.gc.ca/msc/as/acidfaq.html
- NAPAP Tracking and Analysis Framework
National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program. Integrated modeling framework designed to act as a bridge between science and policy.
www.lumina.com/taf/index.html
- Swedish NGO Secretariat on Acid Rain
Joint venture between five Swedish environmental organizations with the chief purpose of promoting awareness of the problems associated with air pollution.
www.acidrain.org
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Acid Rain Program
Provides information about acid rain's causes and effects, how acid rain is measured, and what is being done to solve the problem.
www.epa.gov/acidrain
- USGS: What Is Acid Rain?
Commonly used to mean the deposition of acidic components in rain, snow, fog, dew, or dry particles.
pubs.usgs.gov/gip/acidrain/2.html
- What Is Acid Rain and What Causes It?
Overview from the Almanac of Policy Issues about the broad term used to describe the way that acids fall out of the atmosphere.
www.policyalmanac.org/environment/archive/acid_rain.shtml
- Wikipedia: Acid Rain
Article on the air-pollution phenomenon acid rain. Features the details of chemical emission leading to this effect, lists the adverse effects, and suggests preventive measures.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain
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