Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Haze in the Grand Canyon""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL STUDY""; ""QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENT""; ""QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT""; ""ESTIMATES OF THE RANGE OF POSSIBLE IMPACTS FROM NGS""; ""THE COMMITTEE'S CONCLUSIONS IN PERSPECTIVE""; ""Haze in the Grand Canyon""; ""Haze in the Grand Canyon: An Evaluation of the Winter Haze Intensive Tracer Experiment""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""THE NRC COMMITTEE STUDY""; ""The Committee, Its Charge, and Its Approach""; ""The Committee's Specific Interpretation of Its Charge""
  • ""EVALUATION OF WHITEX""""Whitex Overview""; ""WHITEX SOURCE-ATTRIBUTION MODELS""; ""CRITICAL ASPECTS OF WHITEX TECHNIQUES AND DESIGN""; ""Qualitative Assessment""; ""Meteorological Evidence""; ""Photographic Evidence""; ""Chemical and Physical Evidence""; ""Quantitative Assessment""; ""LIMITATIONS OF THE WHITEX STUDY""; ""Weaknesses in the Data Base""; ""Uncertainties about Tracer Data""; ""Absence of Measurements within the Grand Canyon""; ""Inadequacy of Background Measurements""; ""Departures from Statistical Assumptions""; ""Formulation of Statistical Models""
  • ""Simplifications in the DMB Model""""Potential Covariance of NGS and Other Source Contributions""; ""Estimates of the Range of Possible Impacts of NGS Emissions at Hopi Point""; ""Minimum Conversion of SO2 to ""; ""Maximum Conversion of SO2 to ""; ""THE COMMITTEE'S CONCLUSIONS IN PERSPECTIVE""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""; ""Appendices""; ""Appendix 1: Nature of the Visibility Problem""; ""Contents""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction""; ""1.1 Overview""; ""1.2 Background""; ""1.3 Study Plan""; ""1.4 Interrelationships Between Aerosol, Optical and Visibility Apportionment""
  • ""1.5 Measurement Program""""1.6 Report Outline""; ""References""; ""Chapter 9 Conclusions ""; ""9.1 Introduction""; ""9.2 Climatology of the Area""; ""9.3 Light Extinction Budget""; ""9.4 Attribution of Regional Sulfur and Visibility Impairment""; ""9.4.1 Emissions Analysis""; ""9.4.2 Trajectory and Streakline Analysis""; ""9.4.3 Spatial and Temporal Trends in Ambient Concentrations""; ""9.4.4 Deterministic Wind Field Modeling""; ""9.4.5 Tracer Mass Balance Regression (TMBR) Analysis""; ""9.4.6 Differential Mass Balance (DMB) Analysis""; ""9.4.7 Attribution of Visibility""
  • ""9.4.8 Synthesis""""3.2 CD4 Tracer Injection""; ""3.3 Sample Collection""; ""Chemical Mass Balance With Unique Tracer""; ""Appendix 6B: Tracer Mass Balance Model Regression (TMBR) Model and Tracer Mass Balance (TMB) Model ""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""MODEL EQUATIONS""; ""MODEL CALCULATIONS AND UNCERTAINTIES""; ""Model Assumptions""; ""Potential Deviations From Assumptions""; ""Effect of Nonconstant Regression Coefficients In The TMB Model""; ""MODEL INPUTS""; ""MODEL OUTPUTS""; ""Appendix 3: CD4 As An Air-Mass Tracer""; ""Appendix 4: Commission On Physical Sciences, Mathematics, And Resources""