This is the metadata for: Warrawong_ANSTO_radon_2012-12-01_2013-02-28 (doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.871999)

This file contains 3 months of hourly radon concentrations at Warrawong, NSW (-34.478, 150.884) provided by ANSTO in the context of the MUMBA campaign 

Species: radon
Instrument: 1500L dual-flow-loop two-filter detector 
Owner: Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)
Campaign: Instrument operational since 2006 - data provided in the context of the MUMBA campaign 
Location: Warrawong, NSW  (-34.4781, 150.8843)
Dates provided: 01-Dec-2012 until 28-Feb-2013

Original measurement time resolution: 30 minutes 
Averaging time: 1 hour
Units: mBq/m3  

Installation detail (inc. flow rate if relevant): The site is approximately 3 km from the NSW coast, at 40m above sea level, and sampling was conducted from 2m above ground level
Data/sample analysis detail: radon concentrations are derived from the detector output by (1) scaling the raw counts by the detector sensitivity and subtracting instrumental background and
 (2) de-lagging the output by 30 minutes 

Calibration: monthly by injecting radon for 5 hours from a well-characterised PYLON source (19.58 +/- 4% kBq Ra-226) traceable to NIST standards



Issues: none reported 
Corrections: These data have NOT been STP corrected

Detection Limit: 40 mBq/m3 
Bad or missing data reported as empty fields 


File headers:
date 		yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:SSz
radon (mBq/m3)  mean hourly radon concentration in milliBecquerel per meter cubed 


Contact(s):
Dr Scott Chambers szc@ansto.gov.au
Dr Alastair Williams agw@ansto.gov.au