S34A:
Advances in the Science of Nuclear Test Detection III

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Session ID#: 17806

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
Conveners:  Elisabeth Blanc, CEA Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique DAM, Arpajon Cedex, France, Theodore W. Bowyer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States and Seiji Tsuboi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
Chairs:  Elisabeth Blanc, CEA Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique DAM, Arpajon Cedex, France, Theodore W. Bowyer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States and Seiji Tsuboi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
OSPA Liaison:  Seiji Tsuboi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
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:

Predicting the Blockage of High Frequency Regional Seismic Phases for CTBT Monitoring (125337)
Vernon F Cormier, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States and Christopher Sanborn, Univ Connecticut, Department of Physics, Storrs, CT, United States
Depth determination and source characteristics of the North Korean Nuclear Tests (2006, 2009, 2013 and 2016) using local and teleseismic arrays  (133602)
So Gu Kim, Korea Seismological Institute, Goyang, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Effects of Containment on Radionuclide Releases from Underground Nuclear Explosions (189144)
Charles R Carrigan, Stratify LLC, Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States and Yunwei Sun, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
T-phase and tsunami signals recorded by IMS hydrophone triplets during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake (Invited) (122516)
Hiroyuki Matsumoto1,2, Georgios Haralabus1, Mario Zampolli1, Nurcan Meral Ozel3, Tomoaki Yamada4,5 and Prior K. Mark1,6, (1)CTBTO, Vienna, Austria, (2)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (3)CTBTO, Wien, Austria, (4)ERI, Tokyo, Japan, (5)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (6)Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, The Hague, Netherlands
The Complex Cepstrum - Revisited (176221)
Robert Chester Kemerait Sr, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States; Air Force Technical Applications Center Melbourne, Melbourne, FL, United States
From Ground Truth to Space: Surface, Subsurface and Remote Observations Associated with Nuclear Test Detection (Invited) (168689)
Aviva J Sussman1, Dylan Anderson2, Christopher Burt3, Julia Craven2, Clare Kimblin4, Ian McKenna5, Emily S Schultz-Fellenz6, Elizabeth Miller7, David A. Yocky2 and Derek Haas8, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Special Technologies Laboratory, MSTS, LLC, Santa Barbara, United States, (4)Special Technologies Laboratory, MSTS, LLC., Santa Barbara, United States, (5)Special Technologies Laboratory, NSTec, LLC, Santa Barbara, United States, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-14, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (7)Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-16, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (8)The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
Bayesian Monitoring Systems for the CTBT: Historical Development and New Results (171032)
Stuart Russell, Univ of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Nimar S Arora, Bayesian Logic, Inc., Union City, CA, United States and David Moore, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

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