Uncertainties in the smoke source term for `nuclear winter' studies
Abstract
Climate models have shown that the effects on climate of a major nuclear exchange depend on the quantity and optical properties of the smoke that is dispersed into a global atmosphere. Published estimates for each of the factors necessary to determine the smoke optical depth yeild a wide range of values, which allows the prediction of either comparatively minor effects on climate or massive effects.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- November 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1038/324222a0
- Bibcode:
- 1986Natur.324..222P