Open AccessWhat Wildfire Smoke Tells Us About Nuclear Winter
Author(s) -
Jenessa Duncombe
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2019eo130789
Subject(s) - smoke , atmosphere (unit) , environmental science , meteorology , astrobiology , geography , physics
A cloud of smoke from 2017 Canadian wildfires was so huge that it self-lofted and stayed in the atmosphere for 8 months. Scientists used it as an example for climate simulations of nuclear warfare.