Development and validation of a new fallout transport method using variable spectral winds. Doctoral thesis
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:5486278
The purpose of this research was to develop and validate a fallout prediction method using variable transport calculations. The new method uses National Meteorological Center (NMC) spectral coefficients to compute wind vectors along the space- and time-varying trajectories of falling particles. The method was validated by comparing computed and actual cloud trajectories from a Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption and a high dust cloud. In summary, this research demonstrated the feasibility of using spectral coefficients for fallout transport calculations, developed a two-step smearing model to treat variable winds, and showed that uncertainties in spectral winds do not contribute significantly to the error in computed dose rate.
- Research Organization:
- Air Force Inst. of Tech., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (USA). School of Engineering
- OSTI ID:
- 5486278
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A-151871/1/XAB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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