"Blind" testing of models for predicting the 90Sr activity concentration in river systems using post-Chernobyl monitoring data

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 63-71

  Sasina, N V ^a   Smith, J T ^b   Kudelsky, A V ^a   Wright, S M ^b  

^a Institute of Geochemistry and Geophysics   (Belarus)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

90Sr; Catchment; Chernobyl; Model; Pripyat; River; Runoff; Weapons testing

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RIVERS; RUNOFF;

90SR; CHERNOBYL; PRIPYAT; WEAPONS TESTING;

STRONTIUM;

RIVER WATER; STRONTIUM 90;

CATCHMENT; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PREDICTION; RIVER SYSTEM; RIVER WATER; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TESTING METHOD;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; WATER CONTAMINATION;

BYELARUS; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RIVERS; STRONTIUM; STRONTIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

BELARUS; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33845331332     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2006.09.007     Document Type: Article

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