Meteorological Evaluation and Application of Rainfall Radioactivity Data
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Report Number: AFCRL 811
Author(s): Storeb, Per B.
Corporate Author(s): Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories
Date of Publication: 1961-08
Pages: 27
DoD Task:
Identifier: AD0265174
Abstract:
The meteorological analysis of weather situations during which radioactive samples were collected is described and the limitations of interpretation are discussed. It is shown that precipitation washes out a significant part of the radioactive particles in the air. Successive samples from weather systems revealed that when precipitation was produced in the warm air mass only, the radioactivity in precipitation decreased with time and was independent of location. To explain this, a new weather system model is proposed in which the main part of the precipitation is produced by uniform lifting of a warm air tongue.
Provenance: IIT
Author(s): Storeb, Per B.
Corporate Author(s): Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories
Date of Publication: 1961-08
Pages: 27
DoD Task:
Identifier: AD0265174
Abstract:
The meteorological analysis of weather situations during which radioactive samples were collected is described and the limitations of interpretation are discussed. It is shown that precipitation washes out a significant part of the radioactive particles in the air. Successive samples from weather systems revealed that when precipitation was produced in the warm air mass only, the radioactivity in precipitation decreased with time and was independent of location. To explain this, a new weather system model is proposed in which the main part of the precipitation is produced by uniform lifting of a warm air tongue.
Provenance: IIT