WATER SUPPLY IMPACTS OF NUCLEAR FALL1
作者:
Benjamin F. Hobbs,
Yongshou Luo,
M. E. Maciejowski,
Conrad V. Chester,
期刊:
JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
(WILEY Available online 1989)
卷期:
Volume 25,
issue 1
页码: 1-13
ISSN:1093-474X
年代: 1989
DOI:10.1111/j.1752-1688.1989.tb05661.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: nuclear winter;nuclear fall;nuclear drought;water supply;groundwater
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACT:“Nuclear winter,” more properly called “nuclear fall,” could be caused by injection of large amounts of dust into the atmosphere. Besides causing a decrease in temperature, it could be accompanied by “nuclear drought,” a catastrophic decrease in precipitation. Dry land agriculture would then be impossible, and municipal, industrial, and irrigation water supplies would be diminished. It has been argued that nuclear winter/fall poses a much greater threat to human survival than do fall out or the direct impacts of a conflict. However, this does not appear to be true, at least for the U.S. Even under the unprecedented drought that could result from nuclear fall, water supplies would be available for many essential activities. For the most part, ground water supplies would be relatively invulnerable to nuclear drought, and adequate surface supplies would be available for potable uses. This assumes that conveyance facilities and power supplies survive a conflict largely intact or can
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