Sulfur And Nitrogen Budgets In The Territories Of The Former Soviet Union
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
36
Pages
6
Published
1999
Size
547 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/EURO990632
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
A. Ryaboshapko, S. Paramonov, S. Gromov, O. Afinogenova, H. Rodhe, E. Kjellstrom, L. Gallardo-Klenner and D. Moller
Abstract
Sulfur and Nitrogen Budgets in the Territories of the Former Soviet Union Invited contribution A. Ryaboshapko*, S. Paramonov, S. Gromov, O Afinogenova, H Rodhe, E Kjellstrom, L Gallardo-Klenner and D Moller * Institute of Global Climate and Ecology, Glebovskaja str., 20-B, Moscow 107258 Russia The global atmospheric cycles of many pollutants, especially sulfur and nitrogen compounds, have been strongly affected by human activity during the last decades. The Soviet industry made a significant contribution to the world- wide pollutant emissions. It is impossible to carry out any global or hemispheric assessment of the atmosphere pollution conditions without considering the situation in the former Soviet Union (FSU). In spite of the current economic crisis, the countries of the FSU are still playing a significant role in atmospheric pollution on a hemispheric scale. Major objectives
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