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Plumes Overview

Banklick Plumes​

Currently there are 2 Banklick Plumes. We are creating plumes at the Subcatchment level by adding an initial pollutant Buildup in the Loadings Section of the INP file. Creation of plumes

The pollutant also has to be added into the pollutant section: Pollutants

As you can see the number is large that is because we are measuring in pico-curies. We are currently requiring pico-curies. Originally we were using curies but we were getting data loss issues as the contaminate was there but bellow the normal 0.00 float values. The data was then rounding up to 0 and we were getting signal files that were not correctly representing the data.

Code of pico-curies

Curies and Pico-Curies​

The Definition of a curie according to google is as follows: A unit used to measure the rate of radioactive decay. Radioactive decay is measured by the rate at which the atoms making up a radioactive substance are transformed into different atoms. One curie is equal to 37 billion (3.7 X 1010) of these transformations per second.

A pico-curie is one trillionth of a curie. 1 curie = 1.0e+12 pico-curie.

Signal File​

Signal File Banklick

Other important sections of the INP file to do with pollutant​

Buildup

Washoff

Coverages