S33E:
Advances in the Science of Nuclear Test Detection II

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Session ID#: 17801

Session Description:
The session will focus on CTBT verification methods, including seismoacoustic methods for the detection, location and characterization of potential nuclear tests in the earth, oceans and atmosphere as well as particulate and gaseous radionuclide detection in the atmosphere and subsurface, and geophysical methodologies for on-site inspection. The integration (fusion) of data from multiple methodologies is of special interest. Data acquisition, processing and interpretation are all emphasised, covering for example the use of artificial intelligence to build seismic event lists, atmospheric transport modelling for the provenance of radionuclides, and advances in radio-xenon detection systems. The session will also explore novel approaches that might feature in future verification efforts, for example using synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR), gamma ray pulses, small-scale ionospheric disturbances and neutrinos.
Primary Convener:  W. Randy Bell, CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria
Convener:  Nurcan Meral Ozel, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Geophysics, Istanbul, Turkey
Chairs:  Nurcan Meral Ozel, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Geophysics, Istanbul, Turkey, Raymond Jeanloz, University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, Charlotte A Rowe, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Rengin Gok, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Nurcan Meral Ozel, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Geophysics, Istanbul, Turkey
Co-Organized with:
Seismology, Ocean Sciences, and Atmospheric Sciences

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • OS - Ocean Sciences

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0360 Radiation: transmission and scattering [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3336 Numerical approximations and analyses [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4259 Ocean acoustics [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
7219 Seismic monitoring and test-ban treaty verification [SEISMOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Current Status and Future Development of Geophysical Techniques for CTBT On-site Inspections (174454)
Peter Labak1, George Tuckwell2, Carmen Garcia-Cuenca1, Gregor Malich1, Aviva J Sussman3 and Aled Rowlands1, (1)CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria, (2)RSK, Helsby, United Kingdom, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Estimation of full moment tensors, including uncertainties,for earthquakes, volcanic events, and nuclear tests (182531)
Celso R Alvizuri, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Vipul Silwal, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute and Department of Geosciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Lion Krischer, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland and Carl Tape, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States
The Global Detection Capability of the IMS Seismic Network in 2013 Inferred from Ambient Seismic Noise Measurements (155876)
Peter J. Gaebler, BGR Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany and Lars Ceranna, BGR - Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany
A 3D Numerical Survey of Seismic Waves Inside and Around an Underground Cavity  (173185)
Sofi Esterhazy1,2, Felix Michael Schneider3, Ilaria Perugia2 and Götz Bokelmann4, (1)University of Vienna, Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, Vienna, Austria, (2)University of Vienna, Faculty of Mathematics, Vienna, Austria, (3)University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, (4)University of Vienna, Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, Vienna, Austria
Utility of Characterizing and Monitoring Suspected Underground Nuclear Sites with VideoSAR (164024)
David A. Yocky, Stephen M Dauphin, Robert Riley, Terry M Calloway and Daniel Wahl, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Recent progress in nuclear test detection using infrasound technology (148978)
Elisabeth Blanc1, Alexis LE Pichon1, Lars Ceranna2 and Nicolas Brachet1, (1)Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, CEA/DAM/DIF, Arpajon, France, (2)BGR - Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany
Synthetic seismograms of Jan. 6, 2016 DPRK event calculated by the Earth Simulator (129592)
Seiji Tsuboi1, Hiroyuki Matsumoto1, Mikhail Rozhkov2, Josh Stachnik3 and Ben Baker3, (1)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (2)CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria, (3)Instrumental Software Technologies, Inc., Saratoga Springs, NY, United States

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