title: Outdoor radon concentration measurements: some correlation with major urban pollutants.
abstract: Air pollutants concentration in the urban air strongly depends on the properties of the planetary boundary layer (the lower region of the atmosphere), roughly up to 1 km from Earth's surface. Radioactive radon gas has been recognised by various authors as a valuable natural tracer of transport and dispersion within this layer. To achieve a better comprehension of the urban pollution dynamic in the town of Alessandria, situated in the Po Valley in the north-west of Italy, a system for continuous measurement of radon concentration in outdoor air was experimented. This paper presents the first results obtained: the hourly trend of radon concentration in the diurnal course during different seasons and its correlation with the concentration of the major urban pollutants.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Avanzate, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Via Bellini 25/G, 15100 Alessandria, Italy.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Garbero
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dellacasa
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bianchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Magnoni
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Erbetta
mesh_terms: D000398:Air Pollution, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002947:Cities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007558:Italy; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011874:Radiometry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011886:Radon / Q000032:analysis*; D013223:Statistics as Topic
chemical_list: D011886:Radon