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Atmospheric Change and the North American Transportation Sector:
Summary of a Trilateral Workshop
by the Steering Committee on Atmospheric Change
and the North American Transportation Sector of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences
Steering Committee:
F. SHERWOOD ROWLAND
(Chair),
University of California at Irvine
JAMES P. BRUCE,
Canadian Climate Program Board
THOMAS E. GRAEDEL,
Yale University, New Haven
RUTH A. RECK,
National Institute for Global Environmental Change
RICHARD A. MESERVE,
Covington and Burling, Washington, D.C.
DANIEL SPERLING,
University of California at Davis
C. MICHAEL WALTON,
University of Texas at Austin
Staff:
Lowell Smith,
Senior Program Officer
Laurie Geller,
Program Officer
Kelly Norsingle,
Senior Program Assistant
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Canadian Global Change Program Incidental Report Series No. IR98-1
ISSN 1192-6481
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