Session: Observations (93rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Sunday, 6 January 2013: 10:40 AM-12:00 PM

Room 12A (Austin Convention Center)

Host: Special Symposium on the Transport and Diffusion of Contaminants from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant: Present Status and Future Directions

Chair:

Joseph Chang, Homeland Security Studies and Analysis Institute, Arlington, VA

measurements

Papers:

10:40 AM

3.1

Observation of atmospheric radioactivity in East Japan over 1 year after Fukushima nuclear plant accident

Kazuyuki Kita, Ibaraki Univeristy, Mito, Japan; and H. Tsuruta, A. Watanabe, M. Uematsu, N. Yoshida, M. Takigawa, Y. Igarashi, H. Nagabayashi, A. Shinohara, K. Sueki, A. Yokoyama, S. Higaki, M. Mikami, and Y. Onda

11:00 AM

3.2

Sizes and the Transport Media of Airborne Radiocesium Released from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

Naoki Kaneyasu, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan; and H. Ohashi, F. Suzuki, T. Okuda, F. Ikemori, and N. Akata

Recorded Presentation

11:20 AM

3.3

Observations of Atmospheric Radionuclides from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident in Tsukuba, Japan

Yasuhito Igarashi, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and M. Kajino, Y. Zaizen, and M. Mikami

Recorded Presentation

Handout (3.7 MB)

11:40 AM

3.4

Summary of atmospheric measurements of radioactive materials released by the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident and their transport pathways

Haruo Tsuruta, Univeristy of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan; and M. Takigawa and T. Nakajima

Recorded Presentation