Critical Loads Web Resources
Below are Internet resources related to critical loads: climate-deposition links, soil links, tree biomass and nutrient links, European links, other links, and other critical loads projects.
Climate-Deposition Links
- Air Quality Resources Catalogue - links to air quality data resources
- ClimCalc - modeled physical and chemical climate data for New England/New York
- Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNET) - data on dry acidic deposition and rural, ground-level ozone in the United States
- Forest Service Air Resource Management System Documents
- IMPROVE (Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments) Data Resources - data resources for aerosol, light scatter, light extinction and scene samplers in a number of National Parks and Wilderness areas
- Maps of Acidic Deposition in Eastern North America
- Meteorological Service of Canada - Acid Rain Assessment
- National Atmospheric Deposition Program
- National Weather Service - meteorological data for specific locations
Soil Links
- USDA National Resources Conservation Service - soil series descriptions
- USDA National Resources Conservation Service - soil survey data
- USDA National Resources Conservation Service - Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) Database
- USDA National Resources Conservation Service - State Soil Geographic (STATSGO) database
Tree Biomass and Nutrient Links
- Forest Inventory and Analysis
- Tree Chemistry Database (Version 1.0) L.H. Pardo, M. Robin-Abbott, N. Duarte, and E.K. Miller. 2005. USDA Forest Service Northeastern Research Station General Technical Report NE-324.
European Links
- Coordination Center for Effects - Data center for critical loads mapping and modeling in Europe
- Determination and mapping of critical loads for sulphur and nitrogen and critical levels for ozone in Ireland
- ICP Mapping and Modelling
- Manual on Methodologies and Criteria for Mapping Critical Levels/Loads (revised 2003) Note: Click on Manual/Download at the top of the page and then click on the blue "English 2004" box. The full Manual or individual sections can be downloaded. Section 5.3 discusses modeling critical loads for terrestrial ecosystems using the Simple Mass Balance (Steady State Mass Balance) approach.
- ICP Empirical Critical Loads for N Note: Click on Manual/Download at the top of the page. On the Manual/Download page, click on Related Documents.
- ICP Forests Information
- ICP Water Information
- UK National Focal Centre for Critical Loads Mapping and Modeling
- Very Simple Dynamic (VSD) soil acidification model
Other Links
- Canada-Wide Acid Rain Strategy for Post-2000
- Environment Canada
- Long Term Ecological Research Network - links to LTER sites
- New England Governors' and Eastern Canadian Premiers Environmental Programs
- MANE-VU (Mid-Atlantic/Northeast Visibility Union) - Regional Planning for Improved Visibility
- Map of Sensitive Forest Ecosystems in the United States
- Third Critical Loads Meeting in Riverside, California - presentations and final report
- Westar - Western States Air Resources Council
Other Critical Loads Projects
- Ecosystems Research Group
- Five Year Review of the Canada-Wide Acid Rain Strategy for Post-2000 - Federal/Provincial/Territorial Ministers of Energy and Environment, 2005
Last Modified: 08/19/2008