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a. Fallout without precipitation near the coreof the
trade wind portion of he cloud after one day may be

ced

a

lieedeeae

of the order of 1 x 10° d/m and perhaps 1 x 10° in rain.

. The period of deposition in each case is 2hours.

thuestnade.

b. Under very special weather conditions in the
Hawaiian Islands, the rainout might be of the order

of 1 x 10’ d/m or a dose of 10 roentgens. integrated
over thirteen weeks. iJnis is based on the maximm
' painout activity at Albany-Troy during Upshot-Knothole

and a scaling factor (to

megatons).

¢. Based on the rainout over Washington, D.C. and

HL

_ Rochester, N. Y., during GREENHOUSE DOG test and the
‘appropriate scaling factor

is estimated the highest activity in rain expected

it

for the United Stages from a test the size of MIKE is

of the order of 1LOo~

d/m.

d. Radioactivity from fallout or rainout for almost
any populated area of the earth, outside of the North
‘Pacific, appears to be negligible. Eastern and southeastern Asia appears to be the only area in which the
peak surface deposition for o
« ne day might be greater

than 10° d/m.

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| SUMMARY OF METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS
Meteorological data and analysis were employed to explain

the world-wide distribution of atomic debris. The limited success
of this attempt leads to the following conclusions.

a.

The radiological data, if correct, has indicated a

few cases in which the meteorological estimates of
speed were too low, due partly to complicated three-

dimensional motion that cannot be deduced from the
available data.

‘tests more than a few days or at elevations above
about. ho, 000 feet.

ce. There appears to be no way of determining whether
any of the stratospheric debris has been transported

to the ground.

Such data would yield important

information concerning the exchange of matter between.

the stratosphere and the troposphere.
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hesaleieal,

bd. It is not possible to use meteorology at present
adequately to track the atomic clouds from Pacific

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