Estimating the Asian radon flux density and its latitudinal gradient in winter using ground-based radon observations at Sado Island

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 732-746

  Williams, Alastair G ^a   Chambers, Scott ^a   Zahorowski, Wlodek ^a   Crawford, Jagoda ^a   Matsumoto, Kiyoshi ^b   Uematsu, Mitsuo ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RADON; SURFACE FLUX; WINTER;

CHUBU; HONSHU; JAPAN; NIIGATA; SADO ISLAND;

EID: 74249092265     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2009.00438.x     Document Type: Article

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