Format of the radionuclide observation for the period from March to May 2011

Yasumasa Miyazawa, miyazawa@jamstec.go.jp, 7 March 2013

This is a data archive including the observation data used in a paper of Biogeosciences Discussion, Miyazawa et al., 2012, which was accepted for publication
in Biogeosciences. 

All data files in ascii format are stored in this archive. References of each data files are described in Table 1 of the paper (Also see 'obsarchive_forBG.txt' in this archive). 

Contents of each file is as follows:

1. JAMSTEC(MEXT) surface/subsurface data, TEPCO coast/offshore data, Oarai data
<Name of point> <Unit of data>
<Latitude> <Longitude>
<Depth>
<Year/Month/Day> <Concentration of Iodine-131> <Concentration of Caesium-134> <Concentration of Caesium-137>
...

2. MIRAI data, NYK data, TANSEI data
<Name of point> <Unit of data>
<Latitude> <Longitude>
<Depth>
<Year/Month/Day> <Concentration of Iodine-131> <Error of Iodine-131> <Concentration of Caesium-134> <Error of Caesium-134> <Concentration of Caesium-137> <Error of Caesium-137>
...

Reference:
Miyazawa, Y., Y. Masumoto, S. M. Varlamov, T. Miyama, M. Takigawa, M. Honda, and T. Saino, 2012: Inverse estimation of source parameters of oceanic radioactivity dispersion models associated with the Fukushima accident, Biogeosciences Discuss., 9, 13783-13816. 
 http://www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/9/13783/2012/bgd-9-13783-2012.html

