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A case study of radioactive fallout

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dc.contributor.authorReiter, Elmar R., author
dc.contributor.authorAmerican Meteorological Society, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-21T17:18:33Z
dc.date.available2022-07-21T17:18:33Z
dc.date.issued1963
dc.descriptionReprinted from Journal of applied meteorology (1962), 1963, Vol.2 (6), p.691-705.
dc.description.abstractDuring September 1961 a series of balloon ascents made from Flin Flon, Canada, carrying scintillation counters sensitive to gamma radiation, revealed the existence of shallow stable atmospheric layers carrying radioactive debris, presumably from the Russian test series during the same month. The debris layers encountered on 14 and 15 September have been studied in particular. The debris detected over Flin Flon on 14 September, 2221 GCT, at 650 mb had undergone strong sinking motion. One may conclude that it came from the region immediately underneath the tropopause shortly prior to 13 September, 12 GCT, entering the middle troposphere through the stable layer underneath the jet core, sometimes referred to as a "jet-stream front." Beginning with 17 September a distinct area of radioactive fallout begins to appear at the surface over the eastern United States. Some of this debris seems to be identical with the one detected over Flin Flon, and it apparently was transported by the same jet stream. Part of the fallout seems to be associated with a small collapsing cold dome travelling ahead of this jet stream.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/235438
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relationQC851.C62 no.55
dc.relation.ispartofAtmospheric Science Papers (Blue Books)
dc.relation.ispartofAtmospheric science technical paper, no. 55
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dc.subjectClouds
dc.subjectJet streams
dc.subjectMeteorology
dc.subjectMeteors
dc.subjectParticle trajectories
dc.subjectRadioactive debris
dc.subjectTrajectories
dc.subjectTropopause
dc.subjectTroposphere
dc.subjectWind velocity
dc.titleA case study of radioactive fallout
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