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Environmental monitoring of the atmosphere over the Southern Ocean

The United States Department of Energy - Environmental Measurements Laboratory located in New York City has been monitoring the naturally occurring and man-made radionuclides for the past 40 years throughout the world. We have been using simple and very rugged air sampler which collect air from the surrounding environment. With this method and diverse location of sampling stations we have been able to detect with gamma counting method Beryllium 7, lead 210 as natural radionuclides and also some anthropogenic or man-made radionuclides such as Zirconium 95, Cesium 137, Cerium 144 which half-lives are fairly long. Come to visit us at: http://www.wipp.energy.gov/NAMP/EMLLegacy/index.htm and search for databases especially Surface Air Sampling Program.


The Surface Air Sampling Program (SASP) database provides information on EML's archived air filter samples and sample measurements. The program was established in 1957 to track the global dispersion of radioactive debris resulting from atmospheric testing of nuclear bombs. Air filter samples were collected at locations throughout the world and analyzed for nuclear debris. In the 1980's, the program focused on the global distributions of the naturally occurring radionuclides, beryllium-7 and lead-210. The resulting database is the most comprehensive and extensive record of its kind in the world.

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Identification info

Alternate title
Environmental monitoring of the atmosphere over the Southern Ocean
Date (Publication)
2005-07-15
Edition
1

Originator

Larsen, R.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

LARSEN, RICHARD
Director, Chemical Sciences Division
201 Varick Street
Environmental Measurements Laboratory
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
New York
New York
10014-7447
USA
+1 212 620 3524
+1 2126203611 (facsimile)

Collaborator

LARSEN, RICHARD
Director, Chemical Sciences Division
201 Varick Street
Environmental Measurements Laboratory
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
New York
New York
10014-7447
USA
+1 212 620 3524
+1 2126203611 (facsimile)
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2239

Status
Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3244
+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Environment
  • Oceans

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Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
1987-02-01 1999-12-31
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AIR QUALITY
  • EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > ATMOSPHERIC EMITTED RADIATION
  • EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > NUCLEAR RADIATION EXPOSURE
Keywords
  • ANTARCTICA
  • NUCLEAR
  • RADIATION
  • RADIONUCLIDES
  • SASP
  • SURFACE AIR SAMPLING PROGRAM
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • FLASKS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • AMD
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Mawson
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

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This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

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Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
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This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=ASAC_2239 when using these data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

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Distributor

Distributor

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3244
+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

Distributor

Fees
free
Planned available datetime
2005-07-15T00:00:00
OnLine resource
GET DATA

The EML Legacy Databases

OnLine resource
PROJECT HOME PAGE

Public information for ASAC project 2239

OnLine resource
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2016-03-17 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates. 2018-08-21 - record updated by Dave Connell to fix broken URLs.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/ASAC_2239

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

CONNELL, DAVE J.
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3244
+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

Sponsor

United States Department of Energy

Owner

AADC

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
31cb38f9-fe98-4323-a752-09ac8d0c71e7

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2015-11-30T04:51:24

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metadata.extraction_date

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
8.6

Metadata linkage
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2239

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2005-07-15T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2018-08-21

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
Edition
2014
Other citation details
Version 1
Title
DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
 
 

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