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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 9.

Comparison of HYSPLIT predicted peak 137Cs deposition density using three different particle size distributions with decay corrected measurements of Yamamoto et al. (2008).




Distribution		 HYSPLIT-
predicted
maximum
(kBq m−2)		 HYSPLIT
prediction at
location of
Yamamoto et al. (2008) axis
(kBq m−2)		 Measurements of
137Cs from
Yamamoto et al. (2008) at axis
(kBq m−2)		 Ratio:
Yamamoto
data to
HYSPLIT
MI (from Table 1) 2.2 0.5 12-16 24 to 31
Alternate #1 3.4 1.6 12-16 7 to 10
Alternate #2 1.4 0.8 12-16 16 to 21