Richard P. Turco

Richard Peter "Rich" Turco (born 1943) is an American atmospheric scientist, and Professor at the Institute of the Environment, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.^[1] He won an award in 1986, from MacArthur Fellows Program.

Works

• "Evolution of an impact-generated dust cloud and its effects on the atmosphere", Toon, O. B.; Pollack, J. B.; Ackerman, T. P.; Turco, R. P.; Mckay, C. P.; Liu, M. S., Geological implications of impacts of large asteroids and comets on the earth (A84-25651 10-42) Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America, January 1, 1982, p. 187-200.
• "Nuclear Winter in the Post-Cold War Era", Carl Sagan and Richard P. Turco, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Nov., 1993), pp. 369–373
• "Recent Assessments of the Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War", The Medical implications of nuclear war, Volume 1985, Editors Fredric Solomon, Robert Q. Marston, National Academies, 1986
• "Atmospheric Chemistry", Climate system modeling, Editor Kevin E. Trenberth, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-521-43231-3
• Earth under siege: from air pollution to global change, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-19-507286-0

References

External links

• UCLA Institute of the Environment website
• "Nuclear Winter", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Apr 1984