Handbook of weather, climate, and water : atmospheric chemistry, hydrology, and societal impacts / edited by Thomas D. Potter and Bradley R. Colman.

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Preface-- Contributors -- Section I. Atmospheric chemistry: -- 1. Overview: atmospheric chemistry / Jack Fishman -- 2. Oxidizing power of atmosphere / Daniel J. Jacob -- 3. Tropospheric ozone / Jack Fishman -- 4. Nitrogen oxides and other reactive nitrogen species / J.H. Crawford, J.D. Bradshaw, D.D. Davis, and S.C. Liu -- 5. Carbon monoxide in the atmosphere / Paul Novelli -- 6. Atmospheric methane / M.A.K. Khalil and M.J. Shearer -- 7. Biogenic nonmethane hydrocarbons / Marcy E. Litvak -- 8. Atmospheric sulfur / D.D. Davis, G. Chen, and M. Chin -- 9. Convective transport / Kenneth E. Pickering -- 10. Boundary layer processes and flux measurements / Donald H. Lenschow -- 11. Sources and composition of aerosol particles / Rochard Arimoto -- 12. Aerosols: formation and microphysics in the troposphere / John H. Seinfeld -- 13.Photochemical smog: ozone and its precursors / Sanford Sillman -- 14. Biomass burning / Anne M. Thompson -- 15. Acid rain and deposition / William B. Grant -- 16. Fundamentals of visibility / William C. Malm -- 17. Cloud chemistry / Stephen E. Schwartz -- 18. Dry deposition / M.L. Wesely -- 19. Fate of atmospheric trace gases: wet deposition / Chris Walcek -- 20. Large-scale circulation of the stratosphere / William L. Grose -- 21. Stratospheric ozone observations / Jack A. Kaye and Jack Fishman -- 22. Aerosol processes in the sratosphere / Mario J. Molina -- Section 2. Hydrology: -- 23. Hydrology overview / Soroosh Sorooshian and Martha P.L. Whitaker -- 24. Rainfall / James A. Smith -- 25. Snow hydrology and water resources (western United States) / Roger C. Bales and Don Cline -- 26. Evaluating the spatial distribution of evaporation / William P. Kustas, M. Susan Moran, and John M. Norman.

27. Infiltration and soil moisture processes / Paul R. Houser -- 28. Groundwater flow processes / William W-G. Yeh -- 29. Surface runoff generation / Keith Beven -- 30. Flow routing / D.L. Fread -- 31. Hydrologic modeling for runoff forecasting / Hoshin Gupta -- 32. Stochastic characteristics and modeling of hydroclimatic processes / Jose D. Salas and Roger A. Pielke, Sr. -- 33. Stochastic simulation of precipitation and streamflow processes / Jose D. Salas, Jorge A. Ramirez, Paolo Burlando, and Roger A. Pielke, Sr. -- 34. Stochastic forecasting of precipitation and streamflow processes / Juan B. Valdes, Paolo Burlando, and Jose D. Salas -- 35. Remote sensing and geographical information systems applications in hydrology / Edwin T. Engman and Nandish Mattikalli -- 36. Floods / Steven Jennings and Eve Gruntfest -- Section 3. Societal impacts: -- 37. Climate and society / Michael H. Glantz -- 38. Household food security and coping with climatic variability in developing countries / Thomas E. Downing and Yolande Stowell -- 39. Drought in the U.S. great plains / Donald A. Wilhite -- 40. Floods on the Mississippi river system of the United States / Stanley A. Changnon -- 41. Drought in Northwest Africa / Will Swearingen and Abdellatif Bencherifa -- 42. Hurricane as an extreme meteorological event / Roger A. Pielke, Jr., and Roger A. Pielke, Sr. -- 43. El Nino in Australia / Neville Nicholls -- 44. Biological and societal impacts of climate variability: an example from Peruvian fisheries / Kenneth Broad -- 45. Drought in South Africa / Coleen Vogel -- 46. Transboundary fisheries: pacific salmon / Kathleen A. Miller and Mary W. Downton -- 47. Transboundary river flow changes / Roger S. Pulwarty -- 48. Lessons from the rising Caspian / Igor S. Zonn -- 49. Acid rain and society / Paulette Middleton -- 50. Impacts of climate change / Stewart J. Cohen -- 51. Impacts of stratospheric ozone depletion / Michele M. Betsill -- 52. Tropical deforestation and climate / Roger A. Sedjo -- 53Desertification / R.L. Heathcote -- 54. Imaginable surprises / Stephen H. Schneider -- Index.