Database of meteorological and radiation measurements made in Belarus during the first three months following the Chernobyl accident

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 116, Issue , 2013, Pages 84-92

  Drozdovitch, Vladimir ^a   Zhukova, Olga ^b   Germenchuk, Maria ^b   Khrutchinsky, Arkady ^c   Kukhta, Tatiana ^d   Luckyanov, Nickolas ^a   Minenko, Victor ^e   Podgaiskaya, Marina ^b   Savkin, Mikhail ^f   Vakulovsky, Sergey ^g   Voillequé, Paul ^h   Bouville, André ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Republican Center of Radiation Control and Environmental Monitoring   (Belarus)

^c INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR PROBLEMS   (Belarus)

^d UNITED INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS PROBLEMS   (Belarus)

^e BELARUSIAN MEDICAL ACADEMY OF POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION   (Belarus)

^f Research Institute of Rail Transport Hygiene   (Russian Federation)

^g RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION TYPHOON   (Russian Federation)

^h MJP Risk Assessment Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Chernobyl; Database; Measurement; Meteorological; Radiation

Indexed keywords

BELARUS; CHERNOBYL; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; ELECTRONIC DATABASE; METEOROLOGICAL; METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; RADIATION MEASUREMENTS; WIND SPEED AND DIRECTIONS;

DAIRY PRODUCTS; HEAT RADIATION; MEASUREMENTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

RADIOISOTOPE; WATER;

AIR QUALITY; BIOACCUMULATION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FALLOUT; GAMMA RAY RADIATION; GRASS; MILK; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIONUCLIDE; RECONSTRUCTION; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

AIR; ARTICLE; BELARUS; BETA RHYTHM; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; DATA BASE; GRASS; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MILK; PRECIPITATION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY; WIND;

ANIMALS; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION, RADIOACTIVE; MILK; POACEAE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; RADIOISOTOPES; RAIN; REPUBLIC OF BELARUS; TEMPERATURE; WATER; WIND;

BELARUS;

EID: 84867743326     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2012.09.010     Document Type: Article

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