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1. Monitoring/Data Collection methods
2. Characteristics of the River
3. Cylces and Impacts of Deforestation on these Cycles:
6. SIVAM and other monitoring systems
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Research
Bibliography
***Note: I will update these web-sites as correct bibliographical
entries soon.
1. Palaeoceanography Environmental Change Research Centre
2. Land Surface Hydrology and Water Chemistry The Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA)
3. The source of the Amazon River was just recently discovered. Why did it take so long? National Geographic Society
4. Tropical Deforestation Fact Sheet NASA Earth Observatory
6. Amazonia - Resiliency and Dynamism of the Land and its People Nigel J.H. Smith, Emanuel Adilson S. Serrão, Paulo T. Alvim, and Italo C. Falesi, United Nations University
7. Solving the Amazon?s climate riddle By Ginger Pinholster, SCIENCE
8. Fish in the Trees by Rachel Hauser, NASA Earth Observatory
9. River Seasons by Laura Cheshire, NASA Earth Observatory
10. http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/educ/science/2001/01-04-01.htm
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RESOURCES MANAGEMENT FOR ENERGY GENERATION PURPOSES IN STREAMS PRESENTING
STRONG SEASONAL FLOW VARIATIONS - PLANNING ASPECTS",
Bela Petry & Doron Grull
15.
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Maria Elvira Pineiro Maceira and Jorge Machado Damazio
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18. Cloud condensation nuclei in the Amazon Basin: "Marine" conditions over a continent? Gregory C. Roberts and Meinrat O. Andreae; Jingchuan Zhou; Paulo Artaxo
19.
Rates and Processes of Amazon Deforestation Michael Glantz, Tandy
Brook, Patricia Parisi
20.
Acid Rain
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
21. Effects of Acid Rain: Lakes and Streams EPA
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23. Giant spy eye opens on world's biggest rainforest, Environmental News Network, by Katherine Baldwin
24. Aluminum Companies Urged to Scrap Plans for Amazon Dams Glenn Switkes
25. SIVAM
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and Regional air Pollution in the Tropics by H. Rodhe, E. Cowling,
I.E. Galbally, J. N. Galloway and R. Herrera
Edited by Henning Rodhe
and Rafael Herrera, Acidification in Tropical Countries, John Wiley
& Sons, 1988
27. Chapter 8: Acidification
in Southeastern Brazil by L. M. Moreira-Nordemann, M. C. Forti, V.
L. Di Lascio, C. M. do Espirito Santo and O. M. Danelon
Edited by Henning Rodhe
and Rafael Herrera, Acidification in Tropical Countries, John Wiley
& Sons, 1988
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Hydropower Complex Brazil, Final Report November 2000, Prepared for the
World Commision on Dams
29. Brazil
Country Analysis Brief Energy Information Administration
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/brazil.html
30. Brazil:
Environmental Issues Energy Information Administration
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