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The meteorological analysis of weather situations during which radioactive samples were collected, is described. It appears that precipitation washes out a significant part of the radioactive particles in the air. Successive samples from weather systems revealed that when precipitation was produced in the warm air mass only, the radioactivity concentration in the precipitation decreased with time and was independent of location. In order to explain this, a new weather system model is proposed, in which the main part of the precipitation is produced by uniform lifting of a warm air tongue.
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Martell E. A. &P. J. Drevinsky, 1960:Atmospheric Transport of Artificial Radioactivity. Science, vol. 132, 1523–1531.
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Storebö, P.B. Application of nuclear-bomb debris as tracer for studies of weather systems. Geofisica Pura e Applicata 50, 222–228 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02000648
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02000648