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 

 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"  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  .)
 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  .)
 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  has many photographs of nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site and elsewhere

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