Air-water partitioning of 222Rn and its dependence on water temperature and salinity

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3905-3911

  Schubert, Michael ^a   Paschke, Albrecht ^a   Lieberman, Eric ^b   Burnett, William C ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-WATER; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUMS; CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; DETECTION SYSTEM; GAS PHASIS; GEOPHYSICAL PROCESS; GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PISTON VELOCITY; RADON CONCENTRATIONS; SALINITY EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATER TEMPERATURES;

COOLING SYSTEMS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE;

RADON;

FRESH WATER; GROUND WATER; RADON 222; SURFACE WATER; TRACER; WATER;

DETECTION METHOD; DISCHARGE; EQUILIBRIUM; FRESHWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; RADIOACTIVITY; RADON ISOTOPE; SALINITY; TRACER; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; LOW TEMPERATURE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; SALINITY; SOLUBILITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AIR; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RADON; SALINITY; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 84859348909     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es204680n     Document Type: Article

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