Monitoring Compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT): Contributions by the German National Data Center (Geologisches Jahrbuch / Reihe B / Regionale Geologie Ausland und angewandte Geowissenschaften - Geological Yearbook / Series B / Regional Geology and Applied Geosciences)

Heavy hardcover, 325 pages, NOT ex-library. VG, clean and bright throughout. Issued without a dust jacket. Contents: Overview & Role of Germany in the Verification Regime: - 1 CTBT Verification & its Implementation in Germany [Verification regime; Seismological monitoring of nuclear explosions in Germany before the CTBT; Implementation & Verification; Main CTBT actors of the German Federal Government; Others] 2 German Contributions to the International Monitoring System IMS [Station Operation & maintenance; Primary & Auxiliary seismic monitoring Station PS19 & AS035; Infrasound array IS26 & IS27; Radionuclide monitoring Station RN33]; - Verification Technologies of the IMS: - 3 Seismic Network of the IMS [IMS seismic network stations; Global seismicity & nuclear explosion tests; Event discrimination & magnitude-yield relationships; Detection capability of the seismic network: methodology & results; Comparison of the detection capability against REB events] 4 Infrasound Network of the IMS [Infrasound: an overview; Infrasound activity in Central/Northern Europe & from Mt Etna volcano; IMS global network performance] 5 Hydroacoustic Network of the IMS [Hydroacoustic stations & technology & propagation & monitoring: examples of natural & anthropogenic Signals; Worldwide location of hydroacoustic events] 6 IMS Radionuclide Network Supported by Atmospheric Transport Modelling ATM [Anthropogenic fission products in the atmosphere; ATM]; - Verification Test Cases for the IMS: - 7 Verification of the North Korean Nuclear Explosions 2006, 2009, 2013, 2016 [Seismic event localization; Source Identification; Yield estimation; Moment tensor Inversion; Radionuclide evidence; New & future System developments for CTBT] 8 National Data Center Preparedness Exercises NPE for an Independent Performance Assessment [First ideas realized in NPE2007 & NPE2008; NPE2009: introducing data fusion; Complex multi-technology scenario for NPE2010; Straight non-compliance in NPE2012; NPE2013; NPE2015] 9 Tohoku Earthquake with Tsunami and the Fukushima Releases as Performance Test for the IMS [Tohoku earthquake of March 11, 2011; ATM simulating the Fukushima radionuclide plume arrival at IMS stations across the globe; Backward modelling: finding Fukushima; Potential blinding of the IMS] 10 Chelyabinsk: Benchmark for Global Infrasound Detections [Chelyabinsk: event description and source characteristics; Detections and non-detections by the global IMS network; Infrasound propagation modelling; Discussion of Parameters influencing detection capability; Seismoacoustic fingerprint of the fireball across Central and Northern Europe]; - International Data Center IDC, National Technical Means and On-site Inspection: - 11 Some Considerations on the Quality of IDC Standard Waveform Products [Quality control work on the IDC Reviewed Event Bulletin; Impact of Interactive analysis on bulletin quality at the IDC in 2007] 12 Remote Sensing Data in Support of CTBT Monitoring: Case Studies of Underground Nuclear Explosions [DlnSAR Processing of ERS data over NTS; Co- & Post-seismic deformation; Wide-area change-detection: Case study of Nevada Test Site Underground nuclear explosions using conventional multispectral satellite data; Comparison of differential SAR interferometry and wide-area change-detection results; Study of the nuclear test in North Korea of October 9, 2006] 13 Role of On-Site Inspections OSI of the CTBT [Regulations & provisions from the Treaty; Decision about the conduct of an OSI; Possible scenarios for an OSI request; Role of NTM in case of an OSI; OSI technologies; OSI search logic & management Systems; Results of an OSI; Integrated Field Exercises 2008 and 2014; Training and nomination of inspectors] 14 Seismic Aftershock Monitoring System SAMS for OSI of the CTBT [Physical background; Role of SAMS in case of an OSI; Method of Nanoseismic Monitoring; SAMS at the IFE14; Detection threshold estimation of SAMS networks].…