Upper Air and Wind Observations Following the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident

NOAA_NCEI data collected immediately after the nuclear meltdown on March 28, 1979, near Middletown, PA. The dataset consists of upper air and wind observations for a short period following the incident. It was last updated on April 30, 1979.

Use Cases

• Modeling atmospheric dispersion of potential contaminants based on wind observations.
• Analyzing post-incident environmental conditions based on upper air data.
• Studying the immediate atmospheric response to a major industrial accident.
• Providing a historical baseline for nuclear accident environmental monitoring.

Strengths

• Data is focused on a specific, historically significant event.
• Observations were collected immediately following the incident, capturing acute conditions.
• Sourced from the authoritative NOAA_NCEI organization.

Limitations

• Data is only available for a short period of time immediately following the incident.
• Last updated 1979-04-30 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Upper air and wind observations.

Time Range

Immediately following March 28, 1979.

Freshness

1979-04-30 00:00:00

Geography

Near Middletown, PA, USA.