Project Details
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