Fallout radiocesium in an Antarctic region: Deposition history, activity densities and vertical transport in soils

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 295-302

  Schuller, P ^a   Bunzl, K ^b   Voigt, G ^c   Handl, J ^d   Ellies, A ^a   Castillo, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^d LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; CESIUM 137; RADIOISOTOPE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; EVALUATION; FALLOUT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LATITUDE; MEASUREMENT; PRECIPITATION; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIODENSITOMETRY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL POLLUTION; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSPORT KINETICS; VEGETATION; VELOCITY;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0042567301     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-002-0169-0     Document Type: Article

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