Fig. 7.

The composite climatic parameters of wind direction and speed in the United States during 1951–1958, at different heights of the atmosphere (by atmospheric pressure), respectively 3 km (about 700 mb, after the model of a standard atmospheric pressure) (a); 7 km (about 400 mb) (b); and 12 km (about 200 mb) height (c) (data processing from http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/cgi-bin/data/composites/printpage.pl); total ¹³¹I ground deposition (d) for all atmospheric nuclear tests (data processing from NCI 1997b); and total average per capita cumulative thyroid dose (attributable to ¹³¹I contamination) (e) resulting from all exposure routes from all atmospheric tests (data processing from http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/causes/i131/stateandcountyexposure)