Diurnal variation in radon concentration and mixing-layer depths

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 225-250

  Kataoka, Toshio ^a   Yunoki, Eiji ^a   Shimizu, Mitsuo ^a   Mori, Tadashige ^a   Tsukamoto, Osamu ^b   Ohhashi, Yukitaka ^b,c   Sahashi, Ken ^b   Maitani, Toshihiko ^b   Miyashita, Kohichi ^b   Fujikawa, Yoko ^c   Kudo, Akira ^c  

^a Okayama Prefectural University   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

222Rn and short lived 222Rn daughters; Concentrations of 212Pb; Convective mixing layers; Surface based inversion layers

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DIURNAL VARIATION; LEAD; MIXING; RADON;

JAPAN; KAMISAIBARA VILLAGE;

EID: 6544278025     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001739424400     Document Type: Article

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