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 …

Imputation by feature importance (IBFI): A methodology to envelop machine learning method for imputing missing patterns in time series data

AA Mir, KJ Kearfott, FV Çelebi, M Rafique - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
A new methodology, imputation by feature importance (IBFI), is studied that can be applied
to any machine learning method to efficiently fill in any missing or irregularly sampled data. It …

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 …

Radon Variability as a Result of Interaction with the Environment

S Pulinets, I Mironova, P Miklyaev, T Petrova, A Shitov… - Atmosphere, 2024 - mdpi.com
Recent years have seen increased attention given to radon from two scientific directions.
After neglecting radon as an earthquake precursor in the 1990s, it has become the subject of …

Measurement and characteristics of radon flow in an extremely arid region based on a closed-system earth-air model

H Li, F Li, S Wang - Journal of Environmental Management, 2024 - Elsevier
Radon (222 Rn) is a radioactive gas that occurs naturally in the soil and is harmful to the
environment and health. However, the measuring the amount of radon flowing is …

Quantity and spatial distribution of earth-air activity in Cave 108 of the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes

F Li, H Li, S Wang - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Monitoring of earth-air humidity in soil has revealed extensive rising/falling activity on the
land. Alternation of dry and wet air is the main root cause deterioration in cave wall …

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 …

An improved imputation method for accurate prediction of imputed dataset based radon time series

AA Mir, M Rafique, L Hussain, AS Almasoud… - Ieee …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article primarily focuses on the performance evaluation of a new methodology,
imputation by feature importance (IBFI), to serve its imputed dataset in further regression …

Fugitive gas migration in the vadose zone at an experimental field site in the Montney shale gas region

ON Forde, AG Cahill, B Mayer… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fugitive gas migration (GM) from compromised oil and gas wells remains a global concern.
To understand environmental impacts from GM there is a need to characterize the transport …

eGreenhouse: Robotically positioned, low-cost, open-source CO2 analyzer and sensor device for greenhouse applications

E Levintal, KL Kang, L Larson, E Winkelman, L Nackley… - HardwareX, 2021 - Elsevier
Advances in gas sensors and open-source hardware are enabling new options for low-cost
and light-weight gas sampling devices that are also robust and easy to use and construct …