Pacific Northwest Laboratory annual report for 1987 to the DOE Office of Energy Research: Part 3, Atmospheric sciences

Technical Report · Mon Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1988

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7079680· OSTI ID:7079680

Elderkin, C E

Currently, the broad goals of atmospheric research at Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) are to describe and predict the nature and fate of atmospheric contaminants and to develop an understanding of the atmospheric processes contributing to their distribution on local, regional, and continental scales in the air, in clouds, and on the surface. For several years, studies of transport and diffusion have been extended to mesoscale areas of complex terrain. Atmospheric cleansing research has expanded to a regional scale, multilaboratory investigation of precipitation scavenging processes involving the transformation and wet deposition of chemicals composing ''acid rain.'' In addition, the redistribution and long-range transport of transformed contaminants passing through clouds is recognized as a necessary extension of our research to even larger scales in the future. A few long-range tracer experiments conducted in recent years and the special opportunity for measuring the transport and removal of radioactivity following the Chernobyl reactor accident of April 1986 offer important initial data bases for studying atmospheric processes at these super-regional scales.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 7079680
• Report Number(s): PNL-6500-Pt.3; ON: DE88017292
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ACID RAIN
AIR POLLUTION MONITORING
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS
BATTELLE PACIFIC NORTHWEST LABORATORIES
CHEMISTRY
CHERNOBYLSK-4 REACTOR
DEPOSITION
DOCUMENT TYPES
ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT
EVALUATION
FALLOUT
GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS
ISOTOPE APPLICATIONS
LWGR TYPE REACTORS
MASS TRANSFER
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
PLUMES
POWER REACTORS
PRECIPITATION SCAVENGING
PROGRESS REPORT
RAIN
REACTORS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
THERMAL REACTORS
TRACER TECHNIQUES
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS
WATER COOLED REACTORS