Development of worldwide version of system for prediction of environmental emergency dose information: WSPEEDI 2nd version

Transactions of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 257-267

  Terada, Hiroaki ^a   Nagai, Haruyasu ^a   Furuno, Akiko ^a   Kakefuda, Toyokazu ^a   Harayama, Takaya ^a,b   Chino, Masamichi ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH ORGANIZATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric dispersion; Code system; Information exchange; Long range; Nuclear emergency; Prediction; Source term; WSPEEDI

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; FORECASTING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INTERFACE STATES; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; USER INTERFACES;

ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CODE SYSTEM; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; LONG RANGE; NUCLEAR EMERGENCIES; SOURCE TERMS; WSPEEDI;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 54849434084     PISSN: 13472879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3327/taesj.J07.045     Document Type: Article

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