title: The weekly measurement deviations of indoor radon concentration from the annual arithmetic mean.
abstract: The difference between weekly measurements and the annual arithmetic mean of radon indoor concentration CRn,Indoor was studied in the Czech Republic. The deviations were analysed for 1537 weekly measurements which were consecutively obtained in 29 rooms over a period of 1 year and the annual arithmetic mean was calculated for each particular room. The relationship of the deviations to three meteorological parameters (i.e. outside temperature, atmospheric pressure, and weekly rainfall) and to the sequential number of a calendar week was studied. The effect of atmospheric pressure and weekly rainfall was not significant. The deviation between a weekly measurement and the annual arithmetic mean depended significantly on outside weekly average temperatures. If the average outside weekly temperature was below 10 degrees C, the radon concentration was systematically higher than that of the annual arithmetic mean. The deviation variability was lower up to a temperature of 10 degrees C. If the weekly average outdoor temperature was higher than 10 degrees C, the uncertainty of a weekly measurement of radon concentration was also higher.
authors.affiliation: National Radiation Protection Institute, Pileticka 57, Hradec Kralove 500 03, Czech Republic. djosef@post.cz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dolejs
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hulka
mesh_terms: D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis*; D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000032:analysis* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000465:Algorithms; D002138:Calibration / Q000592:standards; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D018153:Czech Republic; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011786:Quality Control; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D011874:Radiometry / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D011886:Radon / Q000032:analysis*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D012621:Seasons; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014887:Weather
chemical_list: D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive; D011886:Radon