Тип публикации: статья из журнала

Год издания: 2022

Идентификатор DOI: 10.1134/S1024856022040066

Ключевые слова: nitrogen oxides, nuclear weapon test, ozone, shock wave, trace in ozone layer, vela incident, weapon test site coordinates

Аннотация: Abstract: In our nuclear era, suspicions exist about the fate of the Earth’s ozone layer: both large- and local-scale conflicts, using nuclear weapons, are thought to be able to destroy the ozone layer for years to come. On September 22, 1979, an officially unidentified state covertly performed the nighttime nuclear weapon test in Показать полностьюa desolate region of the World Ocean. This event is conventionally called the Vela Incident. In this work, we used ozone data obtained by the NASA satellite Nimbus-7 16 min and 44 s after the explosion. It is shown that the shock wave left a “trace” in the ozone layer. No decrease in the ozone amount is noticed. The coordinates of the explosion site are determined from the trace. © 2022, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.

Журнал: Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics

Выпуск журнала: Vol. 35, Is. 4

Номера страниц: 402-406

ISSN журнала: 10248560

Издатель: Pleiades Publishing

• Kashkin V.B. (Institute of Space and Information Technologies at Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, 660074, Russian Federation)
• Odintsov R.V. (Institute of Space and Information Technologies at Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, 660074, Russian Federation)
• Rubleva T.V. (Institute of Space and Information Technologies at Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, 660074, Russian Federation)

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