Abstract:
:The accidental release of radioactive materials from nuclear power plant leads to radioactive pollution. We apply an augmented ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) with a chemical transport model to jointly estimate the emissions of Perfluoromethylcyclohexane (PMCH), a tracer substitute for radionuclides, from a point source during the European Tracer Experiment, and to improve the forecast of its dispersion downwind. We perturb wind fields to account for meteorological uncertainties. We expand the state vector of PMCH concentrations through continuously adding an a priori emission rate for each succeeding assimilation cycle. We adopt a time-correlated red noise to simulate the temporal emission fluctuation. The improved EnKF system rapidly updates (and reduces) the excessively large initial first-guess emissions, thereby significantly improves subsequent forecasts (r = 0.83, p < 0.001). It retrieves 94% of the total PMCH released and substantially reduces transport error (>80% average reduction of the normalized mean square error).
journal_name
J Environ Radioactjournal_title
Journal of environmental radioactivityauthors
Zhang XL,Li QB,Su GF,Yuan MQdoi
10.1016/j.jenvrad.2015.01.013subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2015-04-01 00:00:00pages
78-86eissn
0265-931Xissn
1879-1700pii
S0265-931X(15)00015-6journal_volume
142pub_type
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