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Continuous Wet-only and Dry-only Deposition Measurements of 137Cs and 7 Be: an Indicator of their Origin.

Appl. Radiat. Isot. 47, 1135-1139 (1996)
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Series of monthly values of 137Cs and 7Be wet and dry deposition were measured with a wet-only and a dry-only collector each having an area of 2.25 m2. The results are presented for the period from November 1991 to May 1995. The behaviour of resuspended, Chernobyl-derived radiocesium is shown to be significantly different from that of cosmogenic 7Be and from that of global fallout 137Cs from nuclear weapons testing. The dry-to-total ratio of 0.65, the dry deposition velocity of 1.5 cm s−1, the close correlation to the total amount of solids collected and the absence of a correlation between activity deposition and amount of rainfall point to a strong similarity in the deposition behaviour of present radiocesium and that of stable elements of terrestrial origin such as Fe, Al, Ca, Mg etc.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
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ISSN (print) / ISBN 0969-8043
e-ISSN 1872-9800
Quellenangaben Volume: 47, Issue: 9-10, Pages: 1135-1139 Article Number: , Supplement: ,
Publisher Elsevier
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Reviewing status Peer reviewed