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Introduction to Health Physics: Fourth Edition - Ruang Baca FMIPA UB

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INTERNAL RADIATION SAFETY 607<br />

Figure 11-4. Effect of atmospheric temperature gradient—or lapse rate—on a displaced volume of<br />

air. (A) Unstable lapse rate. (B). Stable lapse rate. (C). Neutral lapse rate. (Reproduced from Meteorology<br />

and A<strong>to</strong>mic Energy. Washing<strong>to</strong>n, DC: US A<strong>to</strong>mic Energy Commission; 1955.)<br />

<strong>to</strong> predict precisely the pattern of ground-level distribution, although reasonable<br />

estimates may be made from one of several different sets of atmospheric diffusion<br />

equations.<br />

Atmospheric stability depends on the temperature gradient of the air (Fig. 11-4).<br />

Meteorologists refer <strong>to</strong> the temperature gradient of the atmosphere as the lapse

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