Source reconstruction of an accidental radionuclide release at European scale

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 623, 2007, Pages 529-544

  Krysta, Monika ^a   Bocquet, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE L'OUEST   (France)

Author keywords

Entropy maximum; Inverse modelling; Radionuclide dispersion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOISOTOPES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ENTROPY MAXIMUM; INVERSE MODELLING; RADIONUCLIDE DISPERSION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL INVERSION;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIOACTIVITY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; RADIONUCLIDE; RECONSTRUCTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33947493679     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.3     Document Type: Article

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