Richard P. Turco

Richard P. Turco
Born	1943 (age 72–73)
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles
Alma mater	Rutgers University University of Illinois
Doctoral students	Mark Z. Jacobson
Website www.atmos.ucla.edu/~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

1. "Richard P. Turco". UCLA.

External links

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