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Please Note

This report was written to provide source material for Australian State of the Environment Committee's purposes. Independent contract authors prepared the seven supporting theme reports that the Committee considered during preparation of the 2001 SoE Report. The opinions in the theme reports are those of the authors, not of the Committee.

PDF files

• Atmosphere - full report (PDF - 10 145 KB)
• Part 1 - Contents, Acronyms and Abbreviations, Executive Summary, Indicators and Introduction (PDF - 1908 KB)
• Part 2 - International and national initiatives (PDF - 89 KB)
• Part 3a - Climate variability and change (PDF - 1773 KB)
• Part 3b - Climate variability and change (continued) (PDF - 1058 KB)
• Part 4 - Stratospheric ozone (PDF - 702 KB)
• Part 5a - Urban air quality (PDF - 1746 KB)
• Part 5b - Urban air quality (continued) (PDF - 1162 KB)
• Part 6 - Regional air quality (PDF - 1777 KB)
• Part 7 - Acknowledgments, Glossary, References and Index (PDF - 64 KB)

Contents

• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• Executive summary
• Indicators
• Introduction
• International and national initiatives
• Climate variability and change
• Stratospheric ozone
• Urban air quality
• Regional air quality
• Glossary
• References
• Case studies
• Environmental Indicators
• Figures
• Maps
• Tables

Prepared by

Lead Author: Dr Peter Manins, Environmental Consulting and Research Unit, CSIRO Atmospheric Research
Paul Holper, CSIRO Atmospheric Research
Dr Ramasamay Suppiah, Climate Impact Group, CSIRO Atmospheric Research
Dr Rob Allan, Research Scientist, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, United Kingdom
Dr Kevin Walsh, Climate Impact Group, CSIRO Atmospheric Research
Dr Paul Fraser, CSIRO Atmospheric Research
Dr Tom Beer, CSIRO Environmental Risk Network, NATA Wind Laboratory, CSIRO Atmospheric Research

Assisted by:
Julie Penn, CSIRO Atmospheric Research
Joanne Richmond, CSIRO Atmospheric Research

Theme coordinator

John Armstead, State of the Environment Reporting Section, Department of the Environment and Heritage

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