| Estimation of global radon exhalation rate distribution (2008) | |||||||||||||
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| A radon exhalation rate distribution model was developed, which considers dependency on soil water saturation, soil temperature and soil texture. The global averages of the radon exhalation rates were calculated to be 17.5 and 18.0 mBq·m^{-2}·s^{-1} by the model with different input soil moisture data. These values were slightly smaller than the widely-accepted value. Although the calculated radon exhalation rates were smaller than the measured ones in the East Asia, the estimated latitudinal distributions of the radon exhalation rate agreed fairly well with that reported by Conen et al. (2002).. AIP Conference Proceedings. v.1034, n.1, 2008, p.169-172 | |||||||||||||
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