Pulinets, S.; Mironova, I.; Miklyaev, P.; Petrova, T.; Shitov, A.; Karagodin, A. Radon Variability as a Result of Interaction with the Environment. Atmosphere2024, 15, 167.
Pulinets, S.; Mironova, I.; Miklyaev, P.; Petrova, T.; Shitov, A.; Karagodin, A. Radon Variability as a Result of Interaction with the Environment. Atmosphere 2024, 15, 167.
Pulinets, S.; Mironova, I.; Miklyaev, P.; Petrova, T.; Shitov, A.; Karagodin, A. Radon Variability as a Result of Interaction with the Environment. Atmosphere2024, 15, 167.
Pulinets, S.; Mironova, I.; Miklyaev, P.; Petrova, T.; Shitov, A.; Karagodin, A. Radon Variability as a Result of Interaction with the Environment. Atmosphere 2024, 15, 167.
Abstract
Abstract: Recent years demonstrate the increased attention to radon from two scientific directions. After neglecting radon as earthquake precursors in 1990-th it becomes again the subject of earthquake-forecast papers discussions due to growing networks of the radon monitoring in different countries, especially, the technologies of real-time radon measurements where the gamma-spectrometers become the leader of interest as the sources of 222Rn identification. The second fast developing direction is including the radon in the Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (LAIC) models as a source of the boundary layer ionization. And here we encounter with second direction which is not connected with the earthquake forecast problems. It is the role of air ionization by radon as a source of the Global Electric Circuit (GEC) modification. In this publication we try to unite all these problems to present more complex view on radon as important element of our environment.
Keywords
radon; air ionization; global electric circuit; gamma spectrometer
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Geophysics and Geology
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