US Geological Survey, National Water Information System http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis These pages provide access to water-resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Online access to this data is organized around the categories … Continue reading »
Posted on September 15, 2010 …
High-resolution Forest Carbon Stocks and Emissions in the Amazon
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (September 7, 2010)/ Gregory P. Asner et al http://tinyurl.com/37gpxud [Abstract] Efforts to mitigate climate change through the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) depend on mapping and monitoring of tropical forest carbon stocks and emissions over large geographic areas. With a new integrated use of satellite imaging, … Continue reading »
Energy and Urban Innovation
World Energy Council http://www.worldenergy.org/documents/eui_2010_1.pdf [From executive summary] This report outlines the energy-related challenges that cities, particularly large and “mega-cities”, will face during the coming decades. It analyses the technical and policy actions that must be taken to meet these challenges and the role the energy industry and business can play in designing and implementing efficient … Continue reading »
Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS), with an Application to Chesapeake Bay River Inputs
Journal of the American Water Resources Association (first published online: September 7 2010) / by Robert M. Hirsch, Douglas L. Moyer, and Stacey A. Archfield http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1752-1688.2010.00482.x/full A new approach to the analysis of long-term surface water-quality data is proposed and implemented. The goal of this approach is to increase the amount of information that is … Continue reading »
Assessment of Intraseasonal to Interannual Climate Prediction and Predictability
National Academy Press (download book with free registration) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12878 More accurate forecasts of climate conditions over time periods of weeks to a few years could help people plan agricultural activities, mitigate drought, and manage energy resources, amongst other activities; however, current forecast systems have limited ability on these time- scales. Models for such climate forecasts … Continue reading »
Eighteenth Interim Report of the Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels
National Academy Press www.nap.edu/catalog/13002.html The present report is the committee’s 18th interim report. It summarizes the committee’s conclusions and recommendations for improving NAC’s AEGL documents for 25 chemicals: allyl alcohol, bis-chloromethyl ether, chloromethyl methyl ether, bromine pentafluoride, bromine trifluoride, chlorine pentafluoride, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, chlorosilanes (26 selected compounds), epichlorohydrin, formaldehyde, hydrogen bromide, hydrogen iodide, methyl … Continue reading »
State Nuclear Profiles
US Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/nuclear/state_profiles/nuc_state_sum.html The newly-formatted State Nuclear Profiles contains 2008 final data on nuclear generation and capacity, significant facts about the local nuclear industry, nuclear plant construction costs, dates of commercial reactor operation and license expiration, and type of cooling system. Tables also compare nuclear and other output and capacity.
