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ISBN:
9780309554664
Content:
The Effects on the Atmosphere of a Major Nuclear Exchange -- Copyright -- NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Summary and Conclusions -- BACKGROUND -- THE COMMITTEE'S BASELINE CASE -- NOTES ON THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF UNCERTAINTY -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 2 Recommendations for Research -- REFERENCES -- 3 The Baseline Nuclear Exchange -- 4 Dust -- NUCLEAR CLOUD DYNAMICS -- DUST LOFTING BY A NUCLEAR CLOUD -- SOURCES OF DUST -- OBSERVATIONS OF NUCLEAR DUST CLOUDS -- PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS -- OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF AIRBORNE DUST -- DUST LOFTED IN THE BASELINE CASE -- EXCURSIONS -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 5 Fires -- OVERVIEW -- PRESENT-DAY SMOKE EMISSION AND REMOVAL -- HISTORICAL FIRE EXPERIENCE -- Earthquakes -- World War II -- Forest Fires -- Experimental fires -- IGNITION OF NUCLEAR FIRES -- Thermal phenomena -- Urban Ignition -- Forest Ignition -- BURDENS AND DISTRIBUTIONS OF COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS -- Urban Combustibles -- Forest and Wildland Combustibles -- Urban Combustibles Consumed -- Forest and Wildland Fuels Consumed -- SMOKE EMISSIONS AND PROPERTIES -- Urban Smoke -- Emission Factors -- Size Distribution and Composition -- Optical Properties -- Forest Fire Smoke -- Fire Burning Times -- Smoke Injection Altitudes -- Water in Nuclear Clouds -- Removal from the Plume -- ESTIMATING SMOKE EMISSIONS IN A MAJOR NUCLEAR EXCHANGE -- Baseline Estimates -- Excursions from the Baseline Case -- Optical Depth Excursions -- UNCERTAINTIES -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX 5-1: OBSERVATION OF PLUME HEIGHTS AND ASH TRANSPORT IN LARGE FIRES, BY F.E. FENDELL -- Plume Heights -- Smoke Obscuration -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX 5-2: WATER IN NUCLEAR CLOUDS -- Explosion Clouds -- Fire Plumes -- Water Perturbation -- CO2 Perturbation -- Effects of Water Injections -- Indirect Water Perturbations -- REFERENCES -- 6 Chemistry.
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ISBN 9780309035286
Additional Edition:
Print version Effects on the Atmosphere of a Major Nuclear Exchange
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The effects on the atmosphere of a major nuclear exchange Washington, DC : National Academy Pr., 1985 ISBN 0309035287
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Kernexplosion
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Atmosphäre
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