Predictions of dispersion and deposition of fallout from nuclear testing using the NOAA-HYSPLIT meteorological model

Health Physics

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 252-269

  Moroz, Brian E ^a   Beck, Harold L ^b   Bouville, André ^a   Simon, Steven L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

fallout; Marshall Islands; modeling, meteorological; nuclear weapons

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; METEOROLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RISK ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; METEOROLOGY; MICRONESIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEVADA; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AGENCIES;

EID: 77954755675     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3181b43697     Document Type: Article

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