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Warming, Cooling, and Urban Ozone Pollution

Part 6: Summary

  1. What ways do you know to test whether a given set of data represents exponential decay? In choosing a method, why does it matter whether you know the equilibrium level to which the data are decaying?

  2. How is warming like cooling? How is it unlike cooling?

  3. Why are urban trees an important consideration in pollution abatement strategies?

  4. If you were responsible for compliance with pollution standards in Atlanta, what changes would you make in the current ozone abatement strategy? Explain.

  5. If you were working for EPA to design plans to reduce ozone pollution, how might your advice to Houston be different from your advice to Atlanta? Explain.
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