Human Geosciences (H)
Session Sub-category Complex & General(CG)
Session ID H-CG22
Title Monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Status, operations, and scientific application
Short Title Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Monitoring
Main Convener Name Dirk Metz
Affiliation CTBTO
Co-Convener 1 Name Satoru Endo
Affiliation Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering,Hiroshima University
Co-Convener 2 Name Hiroyuki Matsumoto
Affiliation Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Co-Convener 3 Name Takayuki Otsu
Affiliation Japan Weather Association
Session Language
J
Scope
The 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans nuclear test explosions underground, in the ocean, and in the atmosphere. To ensure treaty compliance around the globe, the CTBT comprises a unique and comprehensive verification regime: The International Monitoring System (IMS). The IMS consists of 337 stations worldwide and uses four state-of-the-art monitoring technologies: 1. Seismic, 2. Hydroacoustic, 3. Infrasound, and 4. Radionuclide. As of now, more than 90-% of the facilities are operational, transmitting real-time data to the International Data Centre in Vienna, Austria. 

In addition to detecting nuclear test explosions, the vast amount of data collected by the IMS has given rise to a range of civil and scientific applications, such as the study of earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami events, climate change, the dispersion of radionuclide particles, and many other geophysical phenomena. 

This session aims to bring together stakeholders from National Data Centers, station operators, and members of the research community, serving as a forum for discussion on all aspects of the IMS and test-ban treaty monitoring. Topics may include - but are not limited to - the status of the network in Japan and elsewhere, research outcomes from IMS data, and perspectives on future development of CTBT technologies, algorithms, and capacity building. 

Presentations focusing on regional or global monitoring systems other than the IMS are welcome, especially when similar technologies are used (seismic, hydroacoustic, infrasound, and radionuclide). We also welcome research related to more accurate estimation of the deposition area of radioactive fallout in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Presentation Format Oral and Poster presentation
Time Presentation No Title Presenter
Oral Presentation May 27 AM1
9:00 - 9:15 HCG22-01 A brief introduction to the International Monitoring System hydroacoustic network and its civil and scientific applications Dirk Metz
9:15 - 9:30 HCG22-02 ISCN's Contribution to International Verification Regime for CTBT Masato Hori
9:30 - 9:45 HCG22-03 Overview and Analysis Results of Integrated Operation Exercise in CTBT National Operation System of Japan Yuichi KIJIMA
9:45 - 10:00 HCG22-04 Distribution of small earthquakes observed in the northeastern part of the Korean Peninsula and their detection by IMS Takayuki Otsu
10:00 - 10:15 HCG22-05 Participation of Japan NDC-1 in the NDC Preparedness Exercise (NPE2024) Takanari Fujii
10:15 - 10:30 HCG22-06 Discussion on the CTBT International Monitoring System for scientific applications Hiroyuki Matsumoto
Oral Presentation May 27 AM2
10:45 - 11:00 HCG22-07 Fundamental Study on the Estimation of the "Black Rain" Area Caused by the A-Bombing: Progress Yasuhito Igarashi
11:00 - 11:15 HCG22-08 An investigation into the simulation of "black rain" in Hiroshima and Nagasaki using the numerical mesoscale weather prediction model WRF Yuichiro Oku
11:15 - 11:30 HCG22-09 Discovery and Analysis of Meteorological Recording Charts from the Time of the 1945 Hiroshima Atomic Bombing Akiyo Yatagai
11:30 - 11:45 HCG22-10 Inventory distribution of radionuclides in unaltered soil samples Hiroshi Yashima
11:45 - 12:00 HCG22-11 Classification of molten particles collected in Hiroshima City based on FIB-TOF-SIMS analysis kei nagone
12:00 - 12:15 HCG22-12 Plaster wall was altered by the “Black rain” generated by the Hiroshima bombing. Tadashi Mukai
Presentation No Title Presenter
Poster Presentation May 27 PM3
HCG22-P01 Recent progress on sustainable pressure observation at the seafloor Hiroyuki Matsumoto
HCG22-P02 Characteristics and sources of Cs-137 detected at IMS radionuclide monitoring stations in East Asia Akiko FURUNO
HCG22-P03 Vertical profiles of radionuclides in soil at the site of the remains of Nagasaki Medical College Satoshi Fukutani
HCG22-P04 Impact of Aerosols from Post-Atomic Bomb Urban Fires in Hiroshima on the Distribution of "Black Rain" Masayuki Takigawa
HCG22-P05 Investigation of Reservoir Sediments in the Fallout Area of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb's "Black Rain" Jun Inoue
HCG22-P06 Analysis of total carbon and total organic carbon in soil Maiko Ikegami
HCG22-P07 Study on distribution of radionuclide fallout in Hiroshima District Yayoi Inomata
HCG22-P08 Extraction and Analysis of Molten Particles in Soil from the Remains of the Former Army Stockpile Warehouse, Hiroshima Satoru Endo