Real time quality control of meteorological data used in SRP's emergency response system

Technical Report · Thu May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5345253· OSTI ID:5345253

Pendergast, M M

The Savannah River Laboratory's WIND minicomputer system allows quick and accurate assessment of an accidental release at the Savannah River Plant using data from eight meteorological towers. The accuracy of the assessment is largely determined by the accuracy of the meteorological data; therefore quality control is important in an emergency response system. Real-time quality control of this data will be added to the WIND system to automatically identify inaccurate data. Currently, the system averages the measurements from the towers to minimize the influence of inaccurate data being used in calculations. The computer code used in the real-time quality control has been previously used to identify inaccurate measurements from the archived tower data.

• Research Organization: Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (USA). Savannah River Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-76SR00001
• OSTI ID: 5345253
• Report Number(s): DP-1551
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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500300* -- Environment
Atmospheric-- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ACCIDENTS
CONTROL
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
DATA PROCESSING
METEOROLOGY
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
PROCESSING
QUALITY CONTROL
RADIOACTIVE EFFLUENTS
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
REAL TIME SYSTEMS
RISK ASSESSMENT
SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT
US AEC
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS
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