Atmospheric transport modelling in support of CTBT verification - Overview and basic concepts

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 2529-2537

  Wotawa, Gerhard ^a   De Geer, Lars Erik ^a   Denier, Philippe ^a   Kalinowski, Martin ^a   Toivonen, Harri ^a,b   D'Amours, Real ^c   Desiato, Franco ^d   Issartel, Jean Pierre ^e,f   Langer, Matthias ^g   Seibert, Petra ^h   Frank, Andreas ^h   Sloan, Craig ⁱ   Yamazawa, Hiromi ^j  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d Agenzia Naz Protez dell'A   (Italy)

^e CEA DIF   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^g ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

ⁱ USAF   (United States)

^j NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty; Nuclear test monitoring; Radionuclide monitoring; Source receptor matrices; Transport modelling

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONITORING; RADIOACTIVITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; RADIOISOTOPE; TRACER;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; MODELING; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; ATOMIC BOMB; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIELD EMISSION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0038401177     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(03)00154-7     Document Type: Article

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