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Nuclear Winter

Nuclear Winter is a theoretical climatic phenomenon, within the academic discourse of Nuclear Ethics, characterized by widespread global cooling and reduced sunlight resulting from the injection of substantial amounts of smoke and aerosols into the atmosphere following large-scale nuclear detonations and consequent firestorms.

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Hazards due to comets and asteroids

Choice Reviews Online · 1995 · 924 citations

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Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions

R. P. Turco, O. B. Toon, Thomas P. Ackerman et al. · Science · 1983 · 829 citations

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Cretaceous Extinctions: Evidence for Wildfires and Search for Meteoritic Material

Wendy S. Wolbach, R. S. Lewis, Edward Anders · Science · 1985 · 314 citations · Full text

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Australia’s Black Summer pyrocumulonimbus super outbreak reveals potential for increasingly extreme stratospheric smoke events

David A. Peterson, Michael Fromm, James R. Campbell et al. · npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · 2021 · 236 citations · Full text

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Violent pyro‐convective storm devastates Australia's capital and pollutes the stratosphere

Michael Fromm, Andrew Tupper, Daniel Rosenfeld et al. · Geophysical Research Letters · 2006 · 221 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. AR
    Alan Robock

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States

    13 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. OB
    O. B. Toon

    Ames Research Center, United States

    10 publications · 1.5K citations

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  3. DD
    David Denkenberger

    University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States

    7 publications · 194 citations

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  4. JM
    Joshua M. Pearce

    Michigan Technological University, United States

    5 publications · 160 citations

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  5. CS
    Carl Sagan

    Cornell University, United States

    4 publications · 921 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

    New Brunswick, United States

    6 h-index

    12 publications

    1.7K citations

  2. University of Colorado Boulder

    Boulder, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    886 citations

  3. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    220 citations

  4. University of Alaska Fairbanks

    Fairbanks, United States

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    195 citations

  5. University of Otago

    Dunedin, New Zealand

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    111 citations

  6. Ames Research Center

    Mountain View, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    1.7K citations

  7. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

    Boulder, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    279 citations

  8. Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

    Boulder, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    455 citations

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  1. Nature

    8 publications · 237 citations

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  2. Science

    7 publications · 1.3K citations

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  3. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 7 publications · 558 citations

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  4. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 4 publications · 1K citations

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  5. Atmospheric chemistry and physics

    2 publications · 276 citations

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