Nuclear Winter: Smoke Generation, Deposition, and Removal.

Abstract

The Nuclear Winter scenario predicts a major worldwide cooling arising from the large quantities of soot deposited in the atmosphere from fires ignited by the explosions in a large nuclear exchange. This document reviews the source function for smoke associated with urban and forest fires, addressing the smoke composition and predicted smoke cloud rise height. The interaction of the smoke cloud with the atmosphere is complex and depends on weather conditions. Results from past forest fires demonstrate what can actually happen to smoke clouds.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA161807

Entities

People

  • Ernest Bauer

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Climate Change
  • Combustion
  • Explosions
  • Fires
  • Forest Fires
  • Forests
  • Greenhouse Effect
  • Heat Energy
  • Meteorology
  • Optical Properties
  • Photochemical Reactions
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Security

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.