Plutonium measurements from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests conducted between the 1940s and 1980s. The dataset likely contains artificial plutonium concentrations at femtogram per gram levels, analyzed by AMD_KOPRI. The data was last updated on NASA EarthData in October 2018.
Use Cases
- Modeling the global dispersion of anthropogenic plutonium based on atmospheric nuclear explosion data.
- Assessing long-term environmental contamination levels based on femtogram per gram plutonium measurements.
- Studying the temporal distribution of radionuclide fallout based on the 1940s-1980s time period.
Strengths
- Focuses on a major anthropogenic source of plutonium contamination.
- Provides data for a specific historical period from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last updated 2018-10-04 01:04:53; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- AMD_KOPRI
- Time Range
- 1940s to 1980s