A Novel Assessment of the Surface Heat Flux Role in Radon (Rn-222) Gas Flow within Subsurface Geological Porous Media

A Benkovitz, H Zafrir, Y Reuveni - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
At present, Rn subsurface flow can be described only by diffusion and advection
transportation models within porous media that currently exist. Even though the temperature …

The dynamics of Rn-222 cyclic flow within the shallow geological subsurface media as a daily temporal variated source for exhalation into the air

A Benkovitz, H Zafrir, Y Reuveni - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Extensive research on the dynamics of radon gas (Rn-222) originating from the radioactive
decay of radium (Ra-226) in geological subsurface media, sheds light on its periodic release …

Seasonal variation of night-time accumulated Rn-222 in central Italy

G Pitari, N De Luca, E Coppari, P Di Carlo… - Environmental Earth …, 2015 - Springer
Observations of Radon-222 taken in the central Italy site of L'Aquila since 2004 have been
analysed with simultaneously collected meteorological data and other atmospheric trace …

Soil heat flux and air temperature as factors of radon (Rn-222) concentration in the near-ground air layer

A Podstawczyńska, W Pawlak - Nukleonika, 2016 - sciendo.com
A unique, highly time-resolved, and synchronous three-year dataset of near-surface
atmospheric radon-222 as well as soil heat flux and air temperature measurements at two …

The impact of atmospheric and tectonic constraints on Radon-222 and carbon dioxide flow in geological porous media-a dozen-year research summary

H Zafrir, S Barbosa, E Levintal, N Weisbrod… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Long-term monitoring of Rn-222 and CO2 at a depth of several dozen meter at the Sde-
Eliezer site, located within one of the Dead Sea Fault Zone segments in northern Israel, has …

Differentiation between the effect of temperature and pressure on radon within the subsurface geological media

H Zafrir, SM Barbosa, U Malik - Radiation measurements, 2013 - Elsevier
Long-term continuous in-situ radon field monitoring was carried out in the southern region of
Israel, at the Amram Mountain research tunnel in Elat and in shallow boreholes in the …

A 40-year retrospective European radon flux inventory including climatological variability

I López-Coto, JL Mas, JP Bolivar - Atmospheric Environment, 2013 - Elsevier
In this work, a 40-year retrospective European radon flux inventory has been calculated.
Average values of the radon exhalation rate, probability distributions and seasonal …

Study of abnormal seasonal variations in the radon exhalation rate in a fault zone

PS Miklyaev, TB Petrova - Geochemistry International, 2021 - Springer
Strong seasonal variations in the radon exhalation rate from the soil surface were revealed
during a two-year monitoring cycle in a fault zone on a slope of Mount Beshtau in the …

Temporal signatures of advective versus diffusive radon transport at a geothermal zone in Central Nepal

P Richon, F Perrier, BP Koirala, F Girault… - Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Temporal variation of radon-222 concentration was studied at the Syabru-Bensi hot springs,
located on the Main Central Thrust zone in Central Nepal. This site is characterized by …

Radon-222 survey in Larderello geothermal field, Italy (part I)

F D'Amore - Geothermics;(United States), 1975 - osti.gov
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