Table 223.
Climatological data for Kwajalein and Enewetak.*
Percentage of total time at each wind-speed interval
Wind speed, knots?
0-3
Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Av
,
1
1
1
0
1
1
6
10
16
9
3
1
(4.2
4-10
15
12
22
20
27
27
49
60
59
63
42
20
34,7
11-21
68
B0
70
75
69
70
44
29
24.
28
53
70
56.7
22-33
15
q
7
3
3
2
0
2
9
4.4
0
0
0
0
0
>33
1
0
0
0
0
Prevailing wind
direction and
NE
NE
NE
NE
NE
NE
E/NE E
NE
NE
NE
NE
~--
frequency”
86%
87%
81%
77%
67%
64%
36%
each
27%
33%
55%
74%
--
31%
Precipitation ©
Yr
6.45
6.81
Av. amount, in,
1.02
1.84
1.86
1.28 4.57
3.37
6,30
2.63
51.46
30
Greatest amount,
in
Least amount, in,
Mean number of
days, 0.01 in, or
1.95 10,21
7.33
3.86
8.38
7.03 15.35 14.41 13.17 18.07 17.38
9.18
69.86
13
0.12
0.40
0.37
0.37
1.33
1.36
24.42
13
11
10
13
0.49
,
13
16
16
21
198
10
4,22
.
21
6,24
9.09
Yr. of
record
1.53
2.60
1,94
0,86
20
21
21
16
more,
®uL Ss. Hydrographic Office, Sailing Directions for the Pacific Islands, H. O. Pub. No. 82,
Vol. 1, Second Edition (1964), updated to Dec. 5, 1970,
Pwind data for Kwaialein.
Precipitation data for Enewetak.
for DNA,» estimated that there were
on the other northern islands (KATE,
approximately 7200 ya" of contaminated
LUCY, MARY, NANCY, OLIVE,
metal and concrete present on Enewetak
URSULA, VERA, and WILMA), even
Atoll in December 1972.
though none of them contains ground-zero
AEC radiation
monitors accompanied the H&N crews in
sites, and neither the aerial radiological
order to identify the radioactive material.
survey nor the ground survey parties
Table 224 shows the distribution of this
detected this type of debris.
debris on islands where this type of
survey was conducted,
On the southern islands, there were
The amounts of
- four locations where radioactive scrap
material listed should be taken only as
material was found:
@
an approximate lower limit, particularly
On the north end of ELMER (in the
on islands such as PEARL, where very
"C" level area of Fig. B.37.1.b in
heavy underbrush prevented the survey
Appendix II) there are several
party from covering all parts of the
pieces of Scrap iron with activity
island,
levels above local background,
In addition, it is conceivable that
radioactive scrap material may be found
@
inthe central part of ELMER (the
large 'E" level area of Fig.
B.39.1.b) a partially shielded 60 ~~Co
“Engineering Study for a Cleanup Plan,
Enewetak Atoll-Marshall Islands,
.S0urce was found in a small storage
Holmes and Narver, Repts. HN-1348.1
and HN-1348,2 (1973).
building.
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