(Abstract of paper to be presented eat National Meeting of the
American Metecrological Society, New York, N.¥., Jan. 27, 1959)
by J. Z. Bolland
. Meteorologist, Environmental Sciences Iranch
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Division of Biology and Medicine
U.S. Atomic Energy Comission
Washington 25, 9.C.
The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission is sponsoring « broad progran
ef reesarch on radioactivity in the atmosphere.
This program, largely
earried out by contractors and coopersting Federal agencies, includes
ecllection and radicchenical analysis of samples of tropospheric and
etratospharic particulates, rainmeater and deposited dust.
Substantial
research and developwent on aerosol behavior and methods of sampling
are required in support of this sampling program.
Metecrological
etudies are alee conducted, aimed at interpreting the resulte of
sampling and developing modela for prediction of the world-wide distribution, transport end deposition of radioactive aaterial injected into the
ateosphere ae a result of various applications of atomic energy.
The
testing of meteorological hypotheses, in turn, provides the criteria for
redefinition of sampling requirements.
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