Multiyear to daily radon variability from continuous monitoring at the Amram tunnel, southern Israel

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 829-842

  Barbosa, Barbosa ^a,b   Zafrir, H ^a   Malik, U ^a   Piatibratova, O ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fracture and flow; Time series analysis; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPHA DECAY; ARID ENVIRONMENTS; CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MINERAL GRAINS; MULTI-SCALE FEATURES; NATURALLY OCCURRING; NONSTATIONARY; RADIOACTIVE NOBLE GAS; RADON ANOMALIES; RADON CONCENTRATIONS; RADON LEVEL; RADON MONITORING; SHARP INCREASE; STRONG SEASONAL PATTERN; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME-SCALES;

BUILDINGS; FRACTURE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INERT GASES; LANDFORMS; MINERALS; MONITORING; OBSERVATORIES; RADIUM; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URANIUM; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

RADON;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; COMPLEXITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIURNAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRACTURE FLOW; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADON; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMOHYDROMECHANICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TUNNEL; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ISRAEL;

EID: 77955144090     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04660.x     Document Type: Article

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