Watershed wash-off of atmospherically deposited radionuclides: A review of normalized entrainment coefficients

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 774-778

  Garcia Sanchez, Laurent ^a   Konoplev, A V ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^b RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION TYPHOON   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Normalized entrainment coefficients; Radionuclide; Review; Runoff; Wah off; Watershed

Indexed keywords

FALLOUT; REVIEWS; RUNOFF; SOILS; WATERSHEDS;

CHERNOBYL FALLOUT; DISTRIBUTION COEFFICIENT; ENTRAINMENT COEFFICIENTS; EXPERIMENTAL PLOTS; INTENSE RAINFALLS; SIMULATED RAINFALL; SUSPENDED MATTERS; WAH-OFF;

RADIOISOTOPES;

CESIUM 137; RADIOISOTOPE; RAIN; RUNOFF; STRONTIUM 90;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; ENTRAINMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LITERATURE REVIEW; RADIONUCLIDE; RUNOFF; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TRANSFER FUNCTION; WATERSHED;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; FALLOUT; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NORMALIZED LIQUID ENTRAINMENT COEFFICIENT; NORMALIZED SOLID ENTRAINMENT COEFFICIENT; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; SOIL; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; VALIDITY; WATERSHED;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 70349300549     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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