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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ACP</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ACP</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1680-7324</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus GmbH</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/acp-2-397-2002</article-id>
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<article-title>Modelling transport and deposition of caesium and iodine from the Chernobyl accident using the DREAM model</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Brandt</surname>
<given-names>J.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Christensen</surname>
<given-names>J. H.</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Frohn</surname>
<given-names>L. M.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<addr-line>National Environmental Research Institute, Department of Atmospheric Environment, Frederiksborgvej 399, P.O. Box 358, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>17</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2002</year>
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<volume>2</volume>
<issue>5</issue>
<fpage>397</fpage>
<lpage>417</lpage>
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<p>A tracer model, DREAM (the Danish Rimpuff and Eulerian Accidental release
      Model), has been developed for modelling transport, dispersion and deposition
      (wet and dry) of radioactive material from accidental releases, as the Chernobyl accident. The model is a combination of a Lagrangian model, that
      includes the near source dispersion, and an Eulerian model describing the long-range transport. The performance of the transport model has previously
      been tested within the European Tracer Experiment, ETEX, which included transport and dispersion of an inert, non-depositing tracer from a controlled
      release. The focus of this paper is the model performance with respect to the
      total deposition of&amp;nbsp; &lt;sup&gt;137&lt;/sup&gt;Cs, &lt;sup&gt;134&lt;/sup&gt;Cs and &lt;sup&gt;131&lt;/sup&gt;I from
      the Chernobyl accident, using different relatively simple and comprehensive
      parameterizations for dry- and wet deposition. The performance, compared to
      measurements, of using different combinations of two different wet deposition
      parameterizations and three different parameterizations of dry deposition has
      been evaluated, using different statistical tests. The best model performance, compared to measurements, is obtained when parameterizing the
      total deposition combined of a simple method for dry deposition and a&lt;br&gt;
      subgrid-scale averaging scheme for wet deposition based on relative
      humidities. The same major conclusion is obtained for all the three different
      radioactive isotopes and using two different deposition measurement databases. Large differences are seen in the results obtained by using the
      two different parameterizations of wet deposition based on precipitation rates and relative humidities, respectively. The parameterization based on
      subgrid-scale averaging is, in all cases, performing better than the parameterization based on precipitation rates. This indicates that the
      in-cloud scavenging process is more important than the below cloud scavenging
      process for the submicron particles and that the precipitation rates are relatively uncertain in the meteorological model compared to the relative
      humidity. Relatively small differences are, however, seen in the statistical
      tests between the three different parameterizations of dry deposition.</p>
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