Nuclear fallout svenska
Once the quantity of soot is decided upon by the researchers, the climate effects of these soot clouds are then modeled. This aerosol of particles could heat the stratosphere and prevent a portion of the sun's light from reaching the surface, causing surface temperatures to drop drastically. This model projected that massive quantities of soot and smoke would remain aloft in the air for on the order of years, causing a severe planet-wide drop in temperature.
The exact timescale for how long this smoke remains, and thus how severely this smoke affects the climate once it reaches the stratosphere, is dependent on both chemical and physical removal processes. Currently, from satellite tracking information, it appears that stratospheric smoke aerosols dissipate in a time span under approximately two months. The modeled stable inversion layer of hot soot between the troposphere and high stratosphere that produces the anti-greenhouse effect was dubbed the "Smokeosphere" by Stephen Schneider et al.
Nuclear detonations produce large amounts of nitrogen oxides by breaking down the air around them. A suite of satellite and aircraft-based firestorm-soot-monitoring instruments are at the forefront of attempts to accurately determine the lifespan, quantity, injection height, and optical properties of this smoke. These are then lifted upwards by thermal convection. Turco in reference to a one-dimensional computer model created to examine the "nuclear twilight" idea.
The nuclear winter scenario assumes that or more city firestorms [ 30 ] [ 31 ] are ignited by nuclear explosions , [ 32 ] and that the firestorms lift large amounts of sooty smoke into the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere by the movement offered by the pyrocumulonimbus clouds that form eller gestalt during a firestorm. More recently, the same team of prominent modellers from the s have begun again to publish the outputs of computer models.
This larger number of firestorms, which are not in themselves modeled, [ 12 ] are presented as causing nuclear winter conditions as a result of the smoke inputted into various climate models, with the depths of severe cooling lasting for as long as a decade. The cooling would last for years, and, according to the research, could be "catastrophic", [ 20 ] [ 56 ] disrupting agricultural production and food gathering in particular in higher latitude countries.
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At 10—15 kilometres 6—9 miles above the Earth's surface, the absorption of sunlight could further heat the soot in the smoke, lifting some or all of it into the stratosphere , where the smoke could persist for years if there is no rain to tvätt it out. Once in the stratosphere, the physical removal mechanisms affecting the timescale of the soot particles' residence are how quickly the aerosol of soot collides and coagulates with other particles via Brownian motion , [ 12 ] [ 41 ] [ 42 ] and falls out of the atmosphere via gravity-driven dry deposition , [ 42 ] and the time it takes for the " phoretic effect " to move coagulated particles to a lower level in the atmosphere.
These were speculated to be a possible result of any large scale employment of counter-value airbursting nuclear weapon use during an American-Soviet total war. Sooty aerosols can have a wide range of properties, as well as complex shapes, making it difficult to determine their evolving atmospheric optical depth value. Prior to the previously mentioned solar heating effect, the soot's injection height is controlled by the rate of energy release from the firestorm's fuel, not the size of an initial nuclear explosion.
While the firestorms of Dresden and okänt and the mass fires of Tokyo and Nagasaki occurred within mere months in , the more intense and conventionally lit Hamburg firestorm occurred in Despite the separation in time, ferocity and area burned, leading modelers of the hypothesis state that these five fires potentially placed five percent as much smoke into the stratosphere as the hypothetical nuclear-ignited fires discussed in modern models.
In this scenario it is predicted [ by whom? The only phenomenon that fryst vatten modeled by computer in the nuclear winter papers is the climate forcing agent of firestorm-soot, a product which can be ignited and formed by a myriad of means. The severity of this cooling in Alan Robock's model suggests that the cumulative products of of these firestorms could cool the global climate by approximately 1 °C 1.
According to their model, livestock and aquatic food production would be unable to compensate for reduced crop output in almost all countries, and adaptation measures such as food waste reduction would have limited impact on increasing available calories. In a regional nuclear conflict scenario where two opposing nations in the subtropics would each use 50 okänt -sized nuclear weapons about 15 kilotons each on major population centers, the researchers estimated as much as five million tons of soot would be released, which would producera a cooling of several degrees over large areas of North America and Eurasia, including most of the grain-growing regions.
As they reach the stratosphere, these nitrogen oxides are capable of catalytically breaking down the ozone present in this part of the atmosphere. These partially burnt "organics" as they are known, often form tar balls and brown carbon during common lower-intensity wildfires, and can also coat the purer black carbon particles. During this period, summer drops in average temperature could be up to 20 °C 36 °F in core agricultural regions of the US, Europe, and China, and as much as 35 °C 63 °F in Russia.
The most important physical removal mechanism is " rainout ", both during the "fire-driven convective column" phase, which produces " black rain " near the fire site, and rainout after the convective plume 's dispersal, where the smoke is no längre concentrated and thus "wet removal" is believed to be very efficient. Ozone depletion would allow a much greater intensity of harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun to reach the ground.
After the failure of the predictions on the effects of the Kuwait oil fires that were made by the primary team of climatologists that advocate the hypothesis, over a decade passed without new published papers on the topic.
Vad existerar översättningen av "nuclear fallout" på Svenska?
Although it is common in the climate models to consider city firestorms, these need not be ignited by nuclear devices; [ 17 ] more conventional ignition sources can instead be the spark of the firestorms. A study by Michael J. Mills et al. Nuclear winter is a severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect that is hypothesized [ 1 ] [ 2 ] to occur after widespread firestorms following a large-scale nuclear war. The chemical processes that affect the removal are dependent on the ability of atmospheric chemistry to oxidize the carbonaceous component of the smoke, via reactions with oxidative species such as ozone and nitrogen oxides , both of which are funnen at all levels of the atmosphere, [ 43 ] [ 44 ] and which also occur at greater concentrations when air is heated to high temperatures.
As nuclear devices need not be detonated to ignite a firestorm, the term "nuclear winter" fryst vatten something of a misnomer. It is speculated that the resulting cooling would lead to widespread crop failure and famine. These newer models produce the same general findings as their old ones, namely that the ignition of firestorms, each comparable in intensity to that observed in Hiroshima in , could produce a "small" nuclear winter.
Independent of the team that continue to publish theoretical models on nuclear winter, in , slang för mikrofon Fromm of the Naval Research Laboratory , experimentally found that each natural occurrence of a massive wildfire firestorm, much larger than that observed at Hiroshima, can produce minor "nuclear winter" effects, with short-lived, approximately one month of a nearly immeasurable drop in surface temperatures, confined to the hemisphere that they burned in.
As the incendiary effects of a nuclear explosion do not present any especially characteristic features, [ 36 ] it is estimated by those with strategic bombing experience that as the city was a firestorm hazard, the same fire ferocity and building damage produced at Hiroshima bygd one kiloton nuclear bomb from a single B bomber could have been produced instead by the conventional use of about 1. A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in månad found that even a small-scale, regional nuclear war could disrupt the global climate for a decade or more.
Historical data on residence times of aerosols, albeit a different mixture of aerosols , in this case stratospheric sulfur aerosols and volcanic ash from megavolcano eruptions, appear to be in the one-to-two-year time scale, [ 45 ] however aerosol—atmosphere interactions are still poorly understood. A much larger number of firestorms, in the thousands, [ failed verification ] was the initial assumption of the computer modelers who coined the term in the s.