Constraining annual and seasonal radon-222 flux density from the Southern Ocean using radon-222 concentrations in the boundary layer at Cape Grim

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zahorowski, W ^a   Griffiths, A D ^a   Chambers, S D ^a   Williams, A G ^a   Law, R M ^b   Crawford, J ^a   Werczynski, S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atmospheric radon; Cape Grim; Ocean; Radon flux density; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); RADON ISOTOPE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND VELOCITY; ANNUAL VARIATION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA; CAPE GRIM; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TASMANIA;

EID: 84882650756     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusb.v65i0.19622     Document Type: Article

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