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Simulation, as an art and a science, deals with the issue of allowing the practitioner to model events using their respective probability distributions. Thus, it is customary for simulations to model the behaviour of accidents, telephone calls, network failures etc. In this paper, we consider a relatively new field, namely that of modelling episodic events such as earthquakes, nuclear explosion...

Identifying Underground Nuclear Explosions (UNEs) and discriminating them from natural earthquakes is a critical issue for the verification of the Comprehensive nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). The earthquake source is described as a shear dislocation on a fault plane, which generates both Pand S-wave at the source. On the other hand, the nuclear explosion source is described as an isotropic vol...

S U M M A R Y The International Monitoring System (IMS) of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) continuously records acoustic waves in the 0.01–10Hz frequency band, known as infrasound. These waves propagate through the layered structure of the atmosphere. Coherent infrasonic waves are produced by a variety of anthropogenic and natural sources and their propagation is controlled by ...

Summary The ambient infrasonic noise field is complex due to the interference of spatially distributed infrasound sources. Microbaroms are one most dominant omnipresent sources within this wavefield. These microbaroms generated by non-linear ocean surface wave interactions, and have a characteristic continuous signature spectrum. Under noisy conditions, can mask signals interest, such as from v...

The hydroacoustic segment of the International Monitoring System (IMS) currently being installed for use in verifying compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), will consist of six hydrophone stations and five supplemental T-phase stations. The ability to detect acoustic signals at T-phase stations relies on an understanding of the acoustic to seismic coupling mechanisms....

Infrasound propagation models and upper-atmospheric characterizations have been integrated into a single software tool kit that allows for user-friendly model execution and data visualization. The tool kit, called InfraMAP, for Infrasonic Modeling of Atmospheric Propagation, can be applied to predict travel times, bearings, and amplitudes from potential event locations worldwide. Temporal and s...

The performance of the Radionuclide Aerosol Sampler/Analyzer (RASA) under high-activity conditions has been evaluated to maintain and protect operations International Monitoring System (IMS) radionuclide stations. Station measurements following Fukushima Daichi accident 11 March 2011 have combined with laboratory understand how quality made using RASA High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) gamma-spectrom...