ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING - THERMAL EFFECTS ON FISH ECOLOGY potx

... det- rimental to desired fish populations. The key to controlling thermal pollution” is a firm understanding of how tempera- ture affects fish, and of the circumstances that truly consti- tute ... 1146 THERMAL EFFECTS ON FISH ECOLOGY Of all environmental factors that influence aquatic organ- isms, temperature is the most all-pervasive. There is always an environ...

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... Investigations of the disposition of foreign compounds in fish will shed valuable information on the evolution of enzymes that metabolize drugs, on drug metabolic pathways and excretion, and on factors ... concentrations to assure protection of this very important biological resource. If fish toxicologists continue to consider only the effect of a substance on th...

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... at the end of the current review. Additional information is presented below on the status of coal gasification environmental effects. A comparison of the impacts on water streams of various ... on the system. The construction of a facility will have unavoidable impacts on the land use at the site. Construction and operation may impact on the surface water bodie...

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... production of carbon monoxide. Graphic representations of the conversion of hemoglo- bin to carboxyhemoglobin in the presence of different con- centrations of ambient carbon monoxide and the effect of ... mil- lion females and 19 per million males, and 5 excess lung cancers per million females and 17 per million males. PLANT EFFECTS The effects upon the plant surfaces...

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... Faith, W.L. and A.A. Atkisson, Air Pollution, 2nd Ed., Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1972. Ferrand, E.F., Effects of Air Pollutants, The Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering, ... Blue Men, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1953. Salvato, J., Environmental Health, The Encyclopedia of Environmental Sci- ence and Engineering, 4th Ed., Gordon an...

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... function of latitude and season, and diurnal variations are included. Calculations of radiative fluxes at each model level use four wavebands in the solar radiation and six bands in the long-wave ... subsidence and detrainment of air and the evaporation of precipitation. Precipitation is calculated in terms of the water and ice content of the cloud; cooling of the...

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... mil- lion females and 19 per million males, and 5 excess lung cancers per million females and 17 per million males. PLANT EFFECTS The effects upon the plant surfaces of the contact of vegeta- tion ... LAYER FIGURE 6 Concentrations of effluent (schematic) as function of time of day, over city and country. 50 40 30 20 0 5 10 15 20 Time of day 100-T, (%) FIGURE 7 Concen...

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... Emissions, and Effects Valuation. The final assessment document (NAPAP, 1991) was a summary of the causes and effects of acidic deposition and a comparison of the costs and effectiveness of alternative ... in the Adirondacks, New England, and the mid-Atlantic Highlands. Other lines of evidence, including surveys and the appli- cation of fish response models,...

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... T/W=2 0.30.40.50.60.70.80.9 Stk 0 20 40 60 80 100 S/W= 0.25 0.5 5.0 COLLECTION EFFICIENCY (%) FIGURE 8 Principle of operation of an impactor. Collection effi- ciency of one stage of an impactor as a function of Stokes number, Stk, Reynolds number, Re, and geometric ... rate of formation of particles of volume v due to coagulation, and the second term that rate of los...

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... LAYER FIGURE 6 Concentrations of effluent (schematic) as function of time of day, over city and country. 50 40 30 20 05101520 Time of day 100-T, (%) FIGURE 7 Concentrations of air pollution (100-T%), ... “effective” height of the source, given by stack height plus additional rise, σ is the standard deviation of the distribution of concentration in the y and z -direction...

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