Radioactive contamination of atmospheric dust over southeastern New Mexico

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 4745-4754

  Arimoto, Richard ^a   Webb, Joel L ^a,b   Conley, Marsha ^a,c  

^a New Mexico State Univ   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c 294 CR 332 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol particles; Dust; Radionuclides; Resuspension

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXTRAPOLATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOISOTOPES; SEPARATION;

AEROSOL PARTICLES; NUCLEAR WASTE-STORAGE FACILITIES; RESUSPENSION; WASTE ISOLATION POWER PLANT (WIPP);

DUST;

AMERICIUM 241; PLUTONIUM 238; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; RADIOISOTOPE;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DUST; RADIONUCLIDE; RESUSPENSION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AEROSOL; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION INDICATOR; AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIOACTIVITY; ATOMIC BOMB; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEXICO; MINERAL DUST; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPRING;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 23744509953     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.04.022     Document Type: Article

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