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Sub‐surface nuclear tests monitoring through the CTBT Xenon Network
Author(s) -
Hourdin Frédéric,
Issartel J. P.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/1999gl010909
Subject(s) - xenon , frame (networking) , trace (psycholinguistics) , environmental science , variety (cybernetics) , containment (computer programming) , meteorology , isotopes of xenon , computer science , remote sensing , physics , geology , nuclear physics , telecommunications , artificial intelligence , linguistics , philosophy , programming language
We present the first evaluation of the atmospheric xenon network to be installed as part of the International Monitoring System (IMS) in the frame of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). We show that this network should, by itself, provide a significant contribution to the total efficiency of the IMS. For this evaluation, we introduce an inverse approach based upon the time symmetry of the atmospheric transport of trace species. This approach may find applications in a variety of environmental problems.