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Nuclear Testing Weather and Experimental Data

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Principal Investigator

Problem Statement

Provide nuclear testing weather and experimental data to the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) in support of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Goldbook Project.

Technical Approach

Provide digitized meteorological data from upper atmospheric soundings. Provide digitized experimental data from DASA-1251 compilations of fallout data. Provide digitized cloud sampling measurements by operation and shot. Provide a bibliography of documents used for ORNL’s Nuclear Fallout Data Backbone.

Benefit

Help develop a compendium of selected nuclear weapons effects data - the “golden nuggets” of nuclear test history - for use in verification and validation of DTRA codes.

Contact

Distinguished R&D Staff, Incident Modeling & Computational Sciences
Vincent J Jodoin