Radon variability at the Elat granite, Israel: Heteroscedasticity and nonlinearity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Barbosa, Susana M ^a   Steinitz, G ^b   Piatibratova, O ^b   Silva, M E ^a   Lago, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

HETEROSCEDASTICITY; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

RADON;

AIR TEMPERATURE; GRANITE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; PRECIPITABLE WATER; RADON; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EILAT; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 34948816176     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030065     Document Type: Article

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