RNR 1001 : Test 2 Notes
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Industrial pollution is also pervasive in developed (and developing) countries: widespread release of acids, toxic chemicals, particulate matter, 1970s- love canal- chemical waster disposal site for the town of. Global warming potential of 1: methane (ch4), 12-year residence, gwp of 56 over a 20- year period, nitrous oxide (n20), 120-year residence, gwp of 280 over a. Important concepts: positive feedback- warming, ice melting, increased absorption by water and methane release, increased warming enhancement of the effect, negative feedback- warming, increase in deserts and dust storms, increased reflection of incoming radiation into space, decreased warming. Increase slow infiltration and percolation of water to recharge aquifers: access to riparian wetlands reduces bank erosion, stream bed scouring (if stream floods, water flows out instead of down. Important as spawning and nursery habitat and cover for fishes: trap sediment and can reduce excess nutrient concentration from tributaries, recreation, wetland impacts, direct (ex. Filling or draining, wetland functions lost) and indirect (ex.
