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Published in final edited form as: Health Phys. 2010 Aug;99(2):10.1097/HP.0b013e3181b43697. doi: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3181b43697

Table 6.

Comparison of wind speed and direction at time of detonation at the Bikini test site for the 28 February 1954 (GMT) BRAVO test.

DNA (1979)
HYSPLIT
Altitude
(m)		 Wind
speed
(km h−1)		 Wind
direction
(deg)		 Wind
speed
(km h−1)		 Wind
direction
(deg)
1524 16 100 27 136
3048 10 310 16 303
4572 24 290 19 282
6096 24 380 32 264
7620 35 260 47 253
9144 48 250 58 250
10668 64 240 66 258
12192 64 230 71 265
13716 84 250 69 264
15240 58 250 56 285
16764 29 200 42 308
18288 - - 24 331
21336 - - 10 124
24384 - - 23 74
27432 - - 45 92
30480 - - 72 96