Assessing urban air quality and its relation with radon (222Rn)

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This paper focuses on the assessment of air quality and its relation with radon (222Rn) for Bucharest metropolitan area in Romania. Specifically, daily mean concentrations of particle matter (PM2.5, PM10), ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2) and global air quality indices have been analyzed in relation with radon (222Rn) concentrations measured in the air near the ground with AlphaGUARD Radon Monitoring System and CR-39 SSNTDs during 2012 year. Such new information is required by atmospheric sciences to prove suitability of 222Rn as a tracer for atmospheric dynamics analysis as well as by epidemiological and radiological protection studies.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, Program STAR Contract 73/2013 VRAFORECAST and Program PCCA Contract 86/2014 VRAGEO.

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  1. National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania

    Maria Zoran & Dan Savastru

  2. University Transylvania of Brasov, Brasov, Romania

    Adrian Dida

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Zoran, M., Savastru, D. & Dida, A. Assessing urban air quality and its relation with radon (222Rn). J Radioanal Nucl Chem 309, 909–922 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4681-5

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Keywords

  • Radon (222Rn)
  • Particle matter PM2.5 and PM10
  • Ozone (O3)
  • Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
  • Sulphur dioxide (SO2)
  • Global air quality index
  • Bucharest