Variations in environmental tritium dose estimates due to meteorological data averaging and uncertainties in pathway model parameters

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 321-335

  Kock, A L ^a   Hamby, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric transport; Dose reconstruction; Gaussian dispersion; Savannah River Site

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DATA AVERAGING; DOSE RECONSTRUCTION; GAUSSIAN DISPERSION; PATHWAY MODEL; TRITIUM OXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; CALCULATIONS; DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRITIUM; WATER POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

TRITIUM; TRITIUM OXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; ATOMIC BOMB; DATA BASE; HUMAN; MILK; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION;

TRITIUM;

EID: 0032210930     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005886313328     Document Type: Article

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