Acid rain in an Amazon rainforest

Bruce Haines; Carl Jordan; Howard Clark; Kathleen E. Clark

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v35i1.14590

Acid rain in an Amazon rainforest

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 35 (1983): Issue 1

By: Bruce Haines, Carl Jordan, Howard Clark and Kathleen E. Clark

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|Jan 1983

Abstract

Acid rain is reported from the Amazon territory of Venezuela. The volume weighted average pH was 4.7 for 70 storms sampled from January 1979 through February 1980. At this location, remote from point sources of industrial pollution, acid rain might result from natural biogeochemical processes in the rainforest, from global atmospheric pollution, or from some combination of natural and polliition processes.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v35i1.14590 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889

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Language: English

Page range: 77 - 80

Submitted on: Nov 16, 1981

Accepted on: Mar 25, 1982

Published on: Jan 1, 1983

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© 1983 Bruce Haines, Carl Jordan, Howard Clark, Kathleen E. Clark, published by Stockholm University Press
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