- Author
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Schilling, G. F.
- Title
- Comments on "The Secular Increase of the World-Wide Fine Particle Pollution."
- Coporate
- Rand Corp., Santa Monica, CA
- Report
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RAND P 2910,
May 1964,
9 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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air pollution
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electrical resistivity
- Abstract
- In his recent paper, Gunn presents the results of important measurements of the electrical conductivity of the atmosphere over the Atlantic Ocean. His data appear ideally suited as a reference standard for 1962, and may well become one of the very few established benchmarks in this field.From a comparison with corrected values of the Carnegie measurements of some four decades age, Gunn infers that the average fine particle pollution of the atmosphere could have increased by only a relatively small amount between 1914 and 1962. He thus is able to show that Wait's forecast of the possibility of an alarming increase in world-wide air pollution has not come true - at least not yet.