Abstract
On the basis of the detected correlation between the level of radioactive contamination of air and atmospheric pressure, the assumption is made that the observed geographic distribution of contamination concentrations is determined by the peculiarities of meridional circulation.
Dobson's scheme, according to which the discharge of activity from the stratosphere is assumed to take place in the region of 60° latitudes, is supplemented by the outflow from the stratosphere in the region of 30° latitudes and is corrected on the basis of certain meteorologic considerations, which were borrowed from Palmen.
The proposed scheme of the discharge of activity from the stratosphere is in agreement with observable facts,
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 309–313, March, 1963
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Lavrenchik, V.N., Sofiev, G.N. & Shubko, V.M. Radioactive contamination of the air above the Indian and Pacific Oceans during 1959–1960. At Energy 14, 304–308 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01118484
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