INDEX 



BOMEX (Barbados Oceanographic and 

 Meteorological Experiment), 125, 185, 

 Fig. VI-11 

 Bormann, F. H., 294 

 Boundary layer of plant evaporation, 



200, 201 

 Braham, Roscoe R., 171 

 Brazil 



air-sea system, 190 



climatic change, 52 



drought, 188 



environmental disease, 367 



human adaptation, 374, Fig. XI-1 



mineral deposits, 33 



range management, 74 

 Breton Island, Miss., 136 

 Bristlecone pine: tree ring studies, 61 

 Bronchitis, 319, 385, Fig. XI-8, 390 

 Brook, J., 139 

 Brookhaven National Laboratory (AEC), 



348 

 Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, 362 

 Browning, Keith A., 149 

 Brownsville, Texas, 135 

 Bryan, Kirk, Jr., 87 

 Bryozoa, 232 

 Budyko, M. I., 67, 68 

 Buell, P., 388 

 Building codes 



earthquake hazards, 39 



hurricane protection, 136 

 Buildings and structures 



effects of air pollution, 319 



effects of smog on, 337 



polluting capacity of houses, 327, 385 



see also Construction industry 

 Buoys, 90, 190 



ocean studies, 78, 79, 80, 82, 84, 87, 100 

 Bureau of Reclamation, U.S., 171, 172 

 Burkett, Howard B., 365 

 Burma, 184, 185 



Cactus, Prickly-pear, 297 

 Cadmium poisoning, 322 

 Calcite, 193 

 Calcium 



chloride, 174 



increase in Great Lakes, 268 

 California 



crust of earth, 29, 30, Fig. VII-3, 204 



earthquakes, 26, 28, 30, 31, 33, 35 36, 37, 

 Fig. II— 7, 39, 40 



environment 336, 337, 351, 352, Fig. X-13, 

 385, 386, 390 



fog dispersal, 181, 182 



forests, 61, 207, Fig. VII-5 



ocean areas, 87, 231, 240, 242, 245, 361, 

 362 



trees, 61 



volcanoes, 40, 41, 44 



water, 33, 166, 199, 204, 211 

 California, University of, 66 

 California current: data measurements, 78 

 California Institute of Technology 



contamination research, 330 



Cambrian era, 52 



Cambridge Research Laboratories 



(U.S. Air Force), 13 

 Cameroons, W. Africa, 192 

 Canada 



air-sea system, 106 

 climatic change, 73 

 earth processes, 39 

 ecosystems, 314 



environmental contamination, 267 

 severe storms, 133, 147, 151 

 Canton Island, Pacific, observatory, 84, 



Fig. 1V-4, 86, 87, 88 

 Cape Cod, Mass., 135 

 Cape Thompson, Alaska, 314 

 Cape Verde Islands, 135 

 Carbamates, 355 

 Carbon, 22, 32 

 carbon 14 



insecticides, 234 



measure of productive capacity of the 

 sea, 236 

 circulation in forest ecosystems, 301 

 lake nutrients, 272 

 pollution particles, 358, 362 

 Carbon dioxide (CO^) 



advection in photosynthesis, 202 

 cloud seeding, 173, 174, 175 

 fog seeding, 180, 182, 183 

 hailstorm seeding, 153 

 heat balance of the earth, 287 

 in atmosphere, 34, 55, 56, 57, 58, 64, 89 

 120, 329, 333, 337, 357-358 

 amounts present, 67, 68, Fig. III-9, 



Fig. 111-10, 72 

 high altitudes, 382 

 moist tropics, 330 

 ocean absorption, 82, 233 

 urban areas, 119 

 land cultivation and changes in, 300 

 plant growth, 288, 289 

 quantity affected by man's activities, 286 

 Carbon monoxide (CO) 



air pollution and, 320, 330, 333, 337, 338, 

 358 

 human adaptation, 385-390 

 Carboniferous era, 329 

 Carboxyhemoglobin, 338, 388, Fig. XI-9 

 Caribbean Sea 



atmospheric dust, 191, 192 

 earth processes, 53, 54 

 severe storms, 123, Fig. V-l, 135 

 weather forecasting, 185 

 weather modification, 188 

 Carnivores 



food chain, 225, Fig. VIII-11, 286, 

 Fig. IX-6, 304 

 Carp in Great Lakes, 261, 263, 266 

 Cascade Range, Wash.-Cal., 40 

 CAT, see Clear air turbulence 

 Catfish, 251 

 Cations 



forest ecosystems, 294 

 Caucasus Mountains, U.S.S.R., 151, 152, 



358, Fig. X-15 

 Cenozoic era, 52, 55 

 Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, 

 Cambridge, Mass., 47 



Central America, 35, 123, 246 

 Central Plains: weather, 146, 165 

 Ceraunograms: tropical weather fore- 

 casting, 187 

 Cerra Negro (volcano), Costa Rica, 44 

 Chad Lake, Africa, 52 

 Chagas' disease, 217, 369-370 

 Chain reactions 



ecological balance of Great Lakes, 261 



forest ecosystem response to population 

 changes, 300 



hurricane development, 125 



ocean-atmosphere system, 88 

 Changnon, S. A., Jr., 152 

 Chaparral, 298 

 Charleston, S. C, 38 

 Charlson, Robert J., 330 

 Chemicals 



atmospheric pollutants, 118, 119, 332 



marine contaminants, 357-360 



see also Fertilizers; Insecticides; 

 Pesticides; Pollution, Atmospheric 

 Chemiluminescence quenching, 331 

 Chert deposits, 52 

 Chicago, 111., 113, 119, 257 

 Children, Growth of 



air pollution and, 388 



high altitudes, Fig. XI-6, 385 



tropical regions, 378 

 Chile, 240, 241, 242, 369 

 China, 184, 185, 186, 216, 357 

 China Seas, 184 

 Chitin, 240 

 Chlorinated hydrocarbons 



use on forest lands, 206 



water-vapor pollution, 337 



see also Insecticides; Pesticides 

 Chlorine in Great Lakes, 268 

 Chloroplasts, 288 

 Cholesterol stores, 385 

 Christmas Island, 87 

 Chromium poisoning, 322 

 Chromosphere, 5 

 Chubs, see Ciscoes 

 Chukchi Sea, 246 

 CIC (Committee on Institutional 



Cooperation), 269 

 Cigarette smoking: health hazards, 385, 



Fig. XI-8, 387, 388, 390 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, 114 

 Circular storms, 123 

 Circulatory diseases, 388 

 Ciscoes: Great Lakes, 261, 262, 263, 264 

 Citrus groves, 355 



Clathration process: fog dispersal, 183 

 Claveran, Ramon, 306 

 Clay minerals 



ice nuclei, 192 



in ocean sediments, 358 

 Clear air turbulence, 105-112 

 Clear cutting 



forests, 207, 210, 213 

 tropical areas, 296 

 Climate, 13, 34, 59, 62, 72 



aerobiology, 344 



affected by 



air-ocean system, 82, 85 

 gravitational field, 51 



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