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A 2D microphysical model of the polar stratospheric CN layer

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A Model for Particle Microphysics, Turbulent Mixing, and Radiative Transfer in the Stratocumulus-Topped Marine Boundary Layer and Comparisons with Measurements

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A Review of Ice Particle Shapes in Cirrus formed In Situ and in Anvils

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A conceptual model of the dehydration of air due to freeze-drying by optically thin, laminar cirrus rising slowly across the tropical tropopause

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A hybrid model of the CO2 geochemical cycle and its application to large impact events

scientific article published in May 1986

A hydrogen-rich early Earth atmosphere.

scientific article published on 7 April 2005

A model simulation of Pinatubo volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere

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A physical model of Titan's aerosols

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A regional nuclear conflict would compromise global food security

scientific article published on 16 March 2020

Absorption of visible radiation in atmosphere containing mixtures of absorbing and nonabsorbing particles

scientific article published on October 1981

Absorption of visible radiation in atmosphere containing mixtures of absorbing and nonabsorbing particles: erratum

scientific article published on 01 March 1982

Aircraft observations of thin cirrus clouds near the tropical tropopause

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Algorithms for the calculation of scattering by stratified spheres

scientific article published in October 1981

An analysis of the physical, chemical, optical, and historical impacts of the 1908 Tunguska meteor fall

article by R.P. Turco et al published April 1982 in Icarus

Anthropogenic Albedo Changes and the Earth's Climate

scientific article published in December 1979

Arctic "ozone hole" in a cold volcanic stratosphere

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Ash Particles Detected in the Tropical Lower Stratosphere

scholarly article by Eric J. Jensen et al published 29 October 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

Asia Treads the Nuclear Path, Unaware That Self-Assured Destruction Would Result from Nuclear War ⬇️

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Atmospheric effects and societal consequences of regional scale nuclear conflicts and acts of individual nuclear terrorism

scientific article (publication date: 22 November 2006)

Atmospheric effects and societal consequences of regional scale nuclear conflicts and acts of individual nuclear terrorism ⬇️

scholarly article

Atmospheric science. Solving the PSC mystery

scientific article published on 01 April 2001

Atmospheric science: African dust in Florida clouds.

scientific article

Black carbon lofts wildfire smoke high into the stratosphere to form a persistent plume

scientific article published on 08 August 2019

Chemical composition of Titan's haze: Are PAHs present?

scientific article (publication date: 11 August 2004)

Climate and smoke: an appraisal of nuclear winter

scientific article

Climatic change on Mars

scientific article published on September 1973

Climatic consequences of regional nuclear conflicts

scholarly article published in 2007

Comment on “Climate Impact of a Regional Nuclear Weapon Exchange: An Improved Assessment Based on Detailed Source Calculations” by Reisner et al.

scientific article published in 2019

Comparing simulated PSC optical properties with CALIPSO observations during the 2010 Antarctic winter

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Composition and physical properties of the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer and the North American Tropospheric Aerosol Layer ⬇️

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Constraints on Climate and Habitability for Earth-like Exoplanets Determined from a General Circulation Model

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Controls on the Archean climate system investigated with a global climate model

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Corrigendum to "Microphysical simulations of new particle formation in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere" published in Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 9303–9322, 2011

scholarly article

Development of a Polar Stratospheric Cloud Model Within the Community Earth System Model: Assessment of 2010 Antarctic Winter

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Development of a Polar Stratospheric Cloud Model within the Community Earth System Model using constraints on Type I PSCs from the 2010-2011 Arctic winter

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Direct radiative forcing by anthropogenic airborne mineral aerosols

scientific article published in Nature

Dissipation of Marine Stratiform Clouds and Collapse of the Marine Boundary Layer Due to the Depletion of Cloud Condensation Nuclei by Clouds

scientific article published in Science

Do ice caves exist on Mars?

scholarly article by K.E. Williams et al published October 2010 in Icarus

Effects of Aerosols on Cloud Albedo: Evaluation of Twomey’s Parameterization of Cloud Susceptibility Using Measurements of Ship Tracks

Effects of Scavenging, Entrainment, and Aqueous Chemistry on Peroxides and Formaldehyde in Deep Convective Outflow Over the Central and Southeast United States

scientific article published on 09 June 2018

Efficient transport of tropospheric aerosol into the stratosphere via the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone.

scientific article published on 19 June 2017

Enhancement of cloud cover and suppression of nocturnal drizzle in stratocumulus polluted by haze

scholarly article

Environmental consequences of nuclear war

Environmental consequences of nuclear war

Environmental effects of an impact-generated dust cloud: implications for the cretaceous-tertiary extinctions

scientific article published on 01 January 1983

Environmental effects of large impacts on Mars

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Environmental perturbations caused by the impacts of asteroids and comets

scholarly article

Evaluations of tropospheric aerosol properties simulated by the community earth system model with a sectional aerosol microphysics scheme ⬇️

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Evidence That Nitric Acid Increases Relative Humidity in Low-Temperature Cirrus Clouds

scientific article published in Science

Fireball passes and nothing burns—The role of thermal radiation in the Cretaceous-Tertiary event: Evidence from the charcoal record of North America: Comment and Reply

scholarly article

Fractal organic hazes provided an ultraviolet shield for early Earth

scientific article published in June 2010

Global food insecurity and famine from reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection ⬇️

2022 research report by Xia, Robock, et al.

Haze aerosols in the atmosphere of early Earth: manna from heaven

scientific article published on January 2004

Heterogeneous nucleation of nitric acid trihydrate on clay minerals: relevance to type ia polar stratospheric clouds

scientific article published on 04 December 2007

Heterogeneous reaction probabilities, solubilities, and the physical state of cold volcanic aerosols

scientific article published on August 1993

Hospitable archean climates simulated by a general circulation model

scientific article published on 29 June 2013

How Climate Evolved on the Terrestrial Planets

How an India-Pakistan nuclear war could start—and have global consequences

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

How climate evolved on the terrestrial planets

scientific article published on February 1988

Ice nucleation and dehydration in the Tropical Tropopause Layer

scientific article published on 22 January 2013

Ice nucleation processes in upper tropospheric wave-clouds observed during SUCCESS

scholarly article

Implications of extinction due to meteoritic smoke in the upper stratosphere ⬇️

scholarly article

In memoriam: James B. Pollack (1938-1994).

scientific article published in February 1995

Influence of solar heating and precipitation scavenging on the simulated lifetime of post--nuclear war smoke

scientific article published in October 1985

Infrared optical constants of H2O ice, amorphous nitric acid solutions, and nitric acid hydrates

scientific article published in 1994

K-Pg extinction: Reevaluation of the heat-fire hypothesis

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Laboratory studies of butane nucleation on organic haze particles: application to Titan's clouds

scientific article published on February 2005

Local Nuclear War, Global Suffering

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Making Mars habitable

scientific article

Marine wild-capture fisheries after nuclear war

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Massive global ozone loss predicted following regional nuclear conflict ⬇️

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Measurement of the temperature-dependent optical constants of water ice in the 15-200 microm range

scientific article published in July 2005

Measurements of the vapor pressure of cubic ice and their implications for atmospheric ice clouds

scholarly article

Mesospheric sulfate aerosol layer

scientific article published in 2005

Meteoric smoke production in the atmosphere

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Microphysical simulations of large volcanic eruptions: Pinatubo and Toba

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Microphysical simulations of new particle formation in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere

scholarly article

Microphysical simulations of sulfur burdens from stratospheric sulfur geoengineering

scholarly article

Multidecadal global cooling and unprecedented ozone loss following a regional nuclear conflict

Mystery of the volcanic mass-independent sulfur isotope fractionation signature in the Antarctic ice core

scholarly article

Nitrogen incorporation in CH(4)-N(2) photochemical aerosol produced by far ultraviolet irradiation

scientific article published in April 2012

Noctilucent clouds: Simulation studies of their genesis, properties and global influences

Nuclear Winter Responses to Nuclear War Between the United States and Russia in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model Version 4 and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies ModelE ⬇️

2019 research report by Coup et al.

Nuclear war. Consequences of regional-scale nuclear conflicts

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Nuclear winter: global consequences of multple nuclear explosions

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Numerical modeling of ship tracks produced by injections of cloud condensation nuclei into marine stratiform clouds

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Numerical simulations of the three-dimensional distribution of meteoric dust in the mesosphere and upper stratosphere

scholarly article

Numerical simulations of the three-dimensional distribution of polar mesospheric clouds and comparisons with Cloud Imaging and Particle Size (CIPS) experiment and the Solar Occultation For Ice Experiment (SOFIE) observations

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OCS, stratospheric aerosols and climate

scientific article published in Nature

On a "nuclear winter"

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On transient climate change at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary due to atmospheric soot injections

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Organic haze on Titan and the early Earth

scholarly article

Ozone and aerosol changes during the 1991-1992 airborne arctic stratospheric expedition

scientific article published on August 1993

Persistent Stratospheric Warming Due to 2019–2020 Australian Wildfire Smoke

scientific article published in 2021

Persisting volcanic ash particles impact stratospheric SO2 lifetime and aerosol optical properties

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Planning, implementation, and first results of the Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling Experiment (TC4)

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Planning, implementation, and scientific goals of the Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys (SEAC4RS) field mission

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Polar Stratospheric Clouds and Ozone Depletion

Potential Climatic Impact of Organic Haze on Early Earth ⬇️

scientific article published on 09 March 2011

Radiative forcing from anthropogenic sulfur and organic emissions reaching the stratosphere

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Rapidly expanding nuclear arsenals in Pakistan and India portend regional and global catastrophe

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Real refractive indices of infrared-characterized nitric-acid/ice films: Implications for optical measurements of polar stratospheric clouds

scholarly article

Reassessing the dependence of cloud condensation nucleus concentration on formation rate

scientific article published in Nature

Recent anthropogenic increases in SO2from Asia have minimal impact on stratospheric aerosol ⬇️

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Reduction in haze formation rate on prebiotic Earth in the presence of hydrogen

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

Reduction of tropical cloudiness by soot

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Relation between increasing methane and the presence of ice clouds at the mesopause

scientific article published in Nature

Revealing important nocturnal and day-to-day variations in fire smoke emissions through a multiplatform inversion

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Role of deep convection in establishing the isotopic composition of water vapor in the tropical transition layer

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Role of the stratospheric polar freezing belt in denitrification

scientific article published on 01 March 2001

Self-assured destruction: The climate impacts of nuclear war

Simulated lidar return from a one-dimensional stratospheric aerosol model

scientific article published in Nature

Simulations of Titan's brightness by a two-dimensional haze model

scientific article published in January 1996

Spectroscopic evidence against nitric acid trihydrate in polar stratospheric clouds

scientific article published in Nature

Stratospheric aerosols and climatic change

scientific article published in Nature

Stratospheric aerosols, polar stratospheric clouds and polar ozone depletion after the Mt. Calbuco eruption in 2015

Surface dimming by the 2013 Rim Fire simulated by a sectional aerosol model

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Survival in the first hours of the Cenozoic

scientific article published in 2004

Temperature-dependent optical constants of water ice in the near infrared: new results and critical review of the available measurements

scientific article published on September 2001

The Effects of Impacts on the Climates of Terrestrial Planets

The NASA Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment: High-Altitude Aircraft Measurements in the Tropical Western Pacific

scientific article published on 23 January 2017

The astronomical theory of climatic change on Mars

scientific article published in December 1980

The contribution of anthropogenic SO2 emissions to the Asian tropopause aerosol layer ⬇️

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The formation of sulfate and elemental sulfur aerosols under varying laboratory conditions: implications for early earth

scientific article published in October 2010

The impact of humidity above stratiform clouds on indirect aerosol climate forcing

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Transonic Hydrodynamic Escape of Hydrogen from Extrasolar Planetary Atmospheres ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Tunguska meteor fall of 1908: effects on stratospheric ozone

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Unrealistic desiccation of marine stratocumulus clouds by enhanced solar absorption

scientific article published in Nature

Uptake of Nitric Acid on Ice at Tropospheric Temperatures: Implications for Cirrus Clouds†

Volcanic radiative forcing from 1979 to 2015

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Wet scavenging of soluble gases in DC3 deep convective storms using WRF-Chem simulations and aircraft observations

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