Tracking the complete revolution of surface westerlies over Northern Hemisphere using radionuclides emitted from Fukushima

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 438, Issue , 2012, Pages 80-85

  Hernandez Ceballos M A ^a   Hong, G H ^b   Lozano, R L ^a   Kim, Y I ^b   Lee, H M ^b   Kim, S H ^b   Yeh, S W ^c   Bolivar J P ^a   Baskaran, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^b Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

134Cs; Air masses; Atmosphere; Fukushima; Northern Hemisphere; Westerlies

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; AIR MASS MOVEMENTS; ANTHROPOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; BACKWARD TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; CIRCULATION TIME; FUKUSHIMA; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GROUND LEVEL; LAGRANGIAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RADIOACTIVE PLUME; SINGLE-PARTICLE; TRAJECTORY MODELS; WESTERLIES;

CESIUM; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY; NUCLEAR REACTORS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT;

RADIOISOTOPES;

RADIOISOTOPE;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CESIUM ISOTOPE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIONUCLIDE; TIMESCALE; WESTERLY;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR MONITORING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIOACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHQUAKE; JAPAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUCLEAR REACTOR; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; TSUNAMI;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOISOTOPES; TIME FACTORS;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84865850242     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.08.024     Document Type: Article

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