World Meteorological Organization’s model simulations of the radionuclide dispersion and deposition from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) organized a small Task Team (TT) to respond to a request from the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) to assist them with the meteorological aspects of a dose assessment from the radiological releases from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. The TT’s primary mission was to examine how the use of meteorological analyses and the introduction of additional meteorological observational data, could improve atmospheric transport, dispersion and deposition calculations, a critical component to the dose computations. Although the TT would not be doing dose computations directly for the UNSCEAR assessment, the members agreed that the best way to evaluate the suitability of the various meteorological analyses for the assessment was to actually use the meteorological data in Atmospheric Transport Dispersion and Deposition Models (ATDM) and compare the model predictions against radiological monitoring data.

DRAXLER Roland;  ARNOLD Delia;  CHINO Masamichi;  GALMARINI Stefano;  HORT Mathew;  JONES A.;  LEADBETTER Susan;  MALO Alain;  MAURER Christian;  ROLPH Glenn;  SAITO Kazou;  SERVRANCKX Rene;  SHIMBORI Toshiki;  SOLAZZO Efisio;  WOTAWA Gerhard; 

2016-03-02

ELSEVIER SCI LTD

JRC79715

0265-931X,   

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265931X13002142,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC79715,   

10.1016/j.jenvrad.2013.09.014,