Awan jamur
Awan jamur adalah awan berbentuk jamur dari uap air atau debris yang disebabkan oleh letusan yang sangat besar. Awan jamur umumnya berhubungan dengan ledakan nuklir, tetapi ledakan besar apapun akan membuat pengaruh yang sama. Letusan gunung berapi dapat menciptakan awan jamur alami.
Referensi
Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Mushroom cloud.
- Batchelor, G. K. An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1967.
- Glasstone, Samuel, and Dolan, Philip J. The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 3rd edn. Washington, DC: United States Department of Defense and Energy Research and Development Administration, 1977. (esp. "Chronological development of an air-burst" Diarsipkan 2005-12-04 di Wayback Machine. and "Description of Air and Surface Bursts" in Chapter II) (This entire book is available here: http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/publications/effects/effects.shtml Diarsipkan 2009-02-27 di Wayback Machine. .)
- Vigh, Jonathan. Mechanisms by Which the Atmosphere Adjusts to an Extremely Large Explosive Event, 2001. (See: http://euler.atmos.colostate.edu/~vigh/other_works/at735/vigh_adjustment_mechanisms.pdf Diarsipkan 2008-09-05 di Wayback Machine. .)
- Weart, Spencer. Nuclear Fear: A History of Images. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Pranala luar
- Carey Sublette's Nuclear Weapon Archive has many photographs of mushroom clouds
- DOE Nevada Site Office Diarsipkan 2009-10-29 di Wayback Machine. has many photographs of nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site and elsewhere
