Articles | Volume 9, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2689-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2689-2016
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28 Jun 2016
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Increasing the accuracy and temporal resolution of two-filter radon–222 measurements by correcting for the instrument response

Alan D. Griffiths, Scott D. Chambers, Alastair G. Williams, and Sylvester Werczynski

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Surface-based two-filter radon detectors monitor the ambient concentration of atmospheric radon-222, a natural tracer of mixing and transport. They are sensitive, but respond slowly to ambient changes in radon concentration. In this paper, a deconvolution method is used to successfully correct observations for the instrument response. Case studies demonstrate that it is beneficial, sometimes necessary, to account for the detector response, especially when studying near-surface mixing.