Enhanced airborne radioactivity during a pine pollen release episode

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 139-145

  Tschiersch, J ^a   Frank, G ^a,b   Roth, P ^a   Wagenpfeil, F ^a   Watterson, J ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; RADIOISOTOPE;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIOACTIVITY; FOREST; INHALATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PINE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ACCIDENTS; AIR POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE; CESIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE, EASTERN; GERMANY; HUMANS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLEN; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; TREES; UKRAINE; WIND;

EID: 0032765462     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004110050150     Document Type: Article

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