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Features of gamma background variations in the surface air layer

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An increase in the gamma radiation intensity (20–2500 keV) in the surface air layer during precipitation is studied. Measurements were performed at two high-latitude stations: Apatity (Murmansk region) and Barentsburg (Spitzbergen). Scintillation detectors based on NaI(Tl) crystals were used as sensors. More than 500 events of a gamma background increase during precipitation were recorded. Averaged profiles of the increases in the gamma background and related intensities of precipitation found by using superimpose method are compared; the time gap is ∼30–40 min. The barometric coefficient is zero for the surface gamma radiation, indicating it is of local origin.

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  1. Polar Geophysical Institute, Kola Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Apatity, Murmansk oblast, 184209, Russia

    Yu. V. Balabin, A. V. Germanenko, B. B. Gvozdevsky & E. V. Vashenyuk

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Original Russian Text © Yu.V. Balabin, A.V. Germanenko, B.B. Gvozdevsky, E.V. Vashenyuk, 2013, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Fizicheskaya, 2013, Vol. 77, No. 5, pp. 639–641.

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Balabin, Y.V., Germanenko, A.V., Gvozdevsky, B.B. et al. Features of gamma background variations in the surface air layer. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 77, 572–574 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873813050079

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