Open AccessDetecting the relations between meteorological elements and alpha and beta activity concentration at Al-Tuwaitha site, Baghdad
Author(s) -
Salwa S. Naïf,
Monim H. Al-Jiboori,
Thoalfaqar Al-Rbayee
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
przegląd naukowy inżynieria i kształtowanie środowiska
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.162
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2543-7496
pISSN - 1732-9353
DOI - 10.22630/pniks.2021.30.3.33
Subject(s) - relative humidity , wind speed , environmental science , meteorology , atmospheric sciences , beta (programming language) , air temperature , atmospheric instability , radiation , atmospheric pressure , wind direction , humidity , physics , nuclear physics , computer science , programming language
In this study, 50 samples of air particulates collected from different places in- and outside the Al-Tuwaitha nuclear site, south of Baghdad were used to measure daily gross alpha and beta activity concentrations (AAC and BAC) for the period from 28 January 2015 to 13 April 2017. At the same time, several meteorological factors such as air temperature, wind speed, wind direction, air pressure, relative humidity, and solar radiation, were also measured. Air stability classes were also derived from wind speed and solar radiation. AAC/BAC variations in the surface air layer were discussed in relation to these factors. The results show that there are inverse relations between AAC/BAC and wind speed and temperature, linear relations between AAC/ABC and air pressure and weak relations between AAC/BAC and relative humidity and solar radiation. Lastly, AAC/BAC measurements in unstable air are as large as in neutral air.