Analysis of radon origin by backward atmospheric transport modelling

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 494-502

  Arnold, D ^a,c   Vargas, A ^a   Vermeulen, A T ^b   Verheggen, B ^b   Seibert, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cabauw; Fetch analysis; FLEXPART; Radon; Receptor oriented modelling

Indexed keywords

AIR CONCENTRATIONS; AMBIENT CONCENTRATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; BRITISH ISLES; CABAUW; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE DISPERSIONS; NETHERLANDS; OVER WATER; RADON CONCENTRATIONS; RADON FLUX; SOURCE TERMS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); OCEANOGRAPHY;

RADON;

RADON; WATER;

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FETCH; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADON;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CABAUW; NETHERLANDS; UTRECHT;

EID: 74149083852     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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