List of Research Papers on Radon

Dr. V.M. Choubey

Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology
33, General Mahadeo Singh Road, 
DehraDun- 248001, India

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1.      CHOUBEY, V.M. RAMOLA, R.C. & SHARMA, K.K., 1994. Soil, Gas and indoor radon studies in Doon Valley, India. Nuclear Geophys; 8, (2), 49-54.

2.      CHOUBEY, V.M., SHARMA, K.K. & RAMOLA, R.C., 1997. Geology of radon occurrence around Jari in Parvati Valley , Himachal Pradesh , India. Jour. Environ . Radioactivity, 34(2), 139-148. 

3.      CHOUBEY, V.M. & RAMOLA, R.C. 1997. Correlation between geology and radon levels in ground water, soil and indoor air in Bhilangana valley, Garhwal Himalaya, India.  Environmental Geology, 32(4), 258-262.

4.      RAMOLA, R.C., KANDARI, M.S., RAMACHANDRAN, T.V. & CHOUBEY, V.M., 1998. A study of seasonal variation of radon levels in different types of houses. Jour. Environ. Radioactivity. 39(1), 1-7. 

5.      RAMOLA, R.C., RAWAT, R.B.S., KANDARI, M.S., RAMACHANDRAN, T.V. & CHOUBEY, V.M. 1997. Measurement of Radon in drinking water and indoor air. Jour. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Nuclear Technology publisher, U.K. 74(1/2), 103-105. 

6.      CHOUBEY,V.M.,1998. Radon measurements in soil & water and its relation with geology, Garhwal Himalaya. In preceeding volume of 7th Tohwa International symposium "Radon and Thoron in the Human Environment" held at Fukuoka, Japan Oct.1997. (eds. A Katase and M.Shimo), World Scientific  Pub. PP.193-198. 

7.      RAMOLA, R.C., RAWAT, R.B.S., KANDARI, M.S., RAMACHANDRAN, T.V. & CHOUBEY, V.M. 1997. Measurement of Radon in drinking water and indoor air. Jour. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Nuclear Technology publisher 74(1/2), 103-105. 

8.      RAMOLA, R.C. & CHOUBEY, V.M. 1993. Laboratory studies on diffussion of radon through hydrocarbons. Indian Jour. Petrol. Geol., 1, 272- 275. 

9.      RAMOLA, R.C., RAWAT, R.B.S., KANDARI, M.S., RAMACHANDRAN, T.V. & CHOUBEY, V.M. 1997. Measurement of indoor radon levels around Uttarkashi and Pauri Garhwal areas using nuclear track detector techniques. Ind. Jour. Environmental Protection, 17(7), 519- 526. 

10.  CHOUBEY, V.M.,& RAMOLA. R.C., 1995. Study of radon in rocks and dwellings of Parvati Valley . Vigyan Garima Sindhu, 19, 124 -127. 

11.  RAMOLA, R.C., KANDARI, M.S., RAWAT, R.B.S., RAMACHANDRAN, T.V.& CHOUBEY, V.M. 1997. Study of Indoor levels around Uttarkashi and Pauri Garhwal area using SSNTD. Jour. Radiation Protection and Environment, 20(4), 198-200. 

12.  CHOUBEY, V.M., AGARWAL, S.P. and SHARMA,K.K. 1986. Preliminary radon studies around Doon Valley using SSNTD. Proc. Nuclear Tracks (ed. K.K.Sharma), pp. 125-130

13.  CHOUBEY, V.M. & RAMOLA, R.C.,1995 Radon as health hazard : A case study from Doon Valley. Jour. Him. Geol., 6(2), 58-62. 

14.  RAMOLA, R.C., CHOUBEY, V.M., SAINI, N.K. & BATARYA, S.K. 1999. Occurrence of radon in Drinking Water of Dehradun City, India. Indoor and Built Environment, 8(1), 67-70.

15.  CHOUBEY,V.M., BIST, K.S., SAINI, N.K. & RAMOLA, R.C. 1999. Relation between soil-gas radon variation and the different lithotectonic units of Garhwal Himalaya, India. Jour. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 51(5), 587-592.

16  BIST, R.K. , NEGI, M.S., KANDARI, M.S., RAMOLA, R.C., CHOUBEY, V.M. & RAMACHANDRAN, T.V. 2000.  Measurements of radon, thoron and their daughter products in Garhwal homes. In Proceeding volume of 11th SSNTD symposium, GNDU, Amritsar, 256-258. 

17.  CHOUBEY,V.M., BARTARYA, S.K. & RAMOLA, R.C. 2000. Radon in Himalayan Springs: A Geohydrological Control. Environmental Geology, 39(6), 523-530.

18. CHOUBEY, V.M., Ramachandran, T.V., Negi, M.S. and Ramola, R.C. 2000. Calibration of Radom emanometer. IJEP, Vol. 20(5), 329-331. 

19. CHOUBEY,V.M., Bartarya, S.K., Saini, N. K., and Ramola, R. C. 2001. Impact of geohydrology and neotectonic activity on radon concentration in groundwater of intermontane Doon Valley, Outer Himalaya, India. Environmental Geology, 40 (3), 257-266.

20.  Choubey, V.M., Bartarya, S.K., Negi, M.S. and Ramola, R.C. 2003. Measurement of Radon and Thoron Concentrations in the Indoor Atmosphere and Drinking Water of Eastern Doon Valley, India . Indoor and Built Environment  Vol.12 (3), pp.191-196.

21.  Ramola, R.C., Negi, M.S. and Choubey, V.M. 2003. Simultaneous Measurement of Equilibrium Factor “F” Between Radon and its Progeny and Thoron and its Progeny in Indoor Atmosphere using Nuclear Track Detectors. Indoor and Built Environment, 12(5), 351-356.

22.  Ramola, R.C.  and Choubey, V.M. 2003. Measurement of radon exhalation rate from soil samples of Garhwal Himalaya, India. Journal Radioanalytical Nucl. Chemistry ,vol. 256 (2), 219-223.

23.  CHOUBEY, V.M., BARTARYA, S.K. and RAMOLA, R.C. 2003. Geohydrological Controls on emanation of Radon in Outer Himalaya, India. In: Natural Radionuclides in Hydrology and Hydrogeology (ed.A.Kies & M. Klosen), Publications de l, Universite Du Luxembourg, Cahiers de Physique, pp. 59-70.

24.  CHOUBEY, V.M., BARTARYA, S.K. and RAMOLA, R.C. 2003. Radon in groundwater of eastern Doon valley, Outer Himalaya. Radiation Measurements. 36 (1-6), 401- 405.

25. RAMOLA, R.C., CHOUBEY, V.M. and MUKHERJEE, P.K. 2003. Precursory changes in radon concentration in Himalayan springs with special reference to 1999 Chamoli earthquake. Bulletin of Indian Geologists Association, 36,  39-45.

26.  RAMOLA, R.C., CHOUBEY, V.M., NEGI, M. S., BOURAI, A.A. and BHATT, S.C. 2003. A relationship between change in indoor radon concentration and radon flux from soil and groundwater. In 12th National Symposium on Environment, pp. 188-191.

27.  CHOUBEY, V.M., BARTARYA, S.K. and RAMOLA, R.C. 2004. Radon variations in an active landslide zone from Himalaya:  A preliminary study. ^3rd International symposium on Radiation Education (JERI-ISRE04). Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute. Nagasaki (Japan), pp. 224-230.

28.  CHOUBEY,V.M., MUKHERJEE,P.K. and RAMOLA,R.C., 2004. Radon variation in spring water before and after Chamoli earthquake, Garhwal Himalaya, India. In proceeding of 11th International Congress of the international Radiation Protection Association. Madrid, Spain. pp. 1-7. http://www.irpa11.com/new/pdfs/6a19.pdf

29.  CHOUBEY, V.M., BARTARYA, S.K. and RAMOLA, R.C. 2005. Radon variations in an active landslide zone along Pindar River, in Chamoli District, Garhwal Lesser Himalaya, India. Environmental Geology . 47(6), 745-750.

30.  Sonkawade,R.G., Debasish Ghose., Dutta, T.S., Khotari, A., Kanjilal, D., Choubey, V.M., Yogesh Prasad., Ganesh Prasad and Ramola, R.C. 2004. Radon as a tracer for Helium exploration in the geothermal springs.22nd International conference on Nuclear Tracks in Solid, Barcilona, Aug. 23-27, 2004

31.  RAMOLA, R.C. AND CHOUBEY, V. M. 2004. Opportunity of radon therapy in India. NTSI Newsletter 10 (2004) 7-8.

32. RAMOLA, R.C., NEGI, M.S. and CHOUBEY, V.M. 2005. Radon, thoron and their progeny concentrations in dwellings of Kumaun Himalaya-survey and outcomes. Journal Environmental Radioactivity. 79 (1), 85-92. 

33.    Yogesh Prasad, Ganesh Prasad., Choubey, V.M and Ramola, R.C. 2005. Radon variation in drinking water with different lithotectonic units of Uttaranchal Himalaya. Proc. 27th IARP conference. pp. 215-217.

34.  Ramola, R.C., Choubey, V.M., Prasad, Y., Prasad, G. and Bartarya, S.K. 2006. Variation in Radon concentration and terrestrial Gamma radiation doses rate in relation to the lithology in southern part of Kumaon Himalaya, India. Radiation Measurements, 41, 714-720

35.    Yogesh Prasad, Ganesh Prasad, Negi, M.S., Choubey, V.M. and Ramola, R.C. 2006. Variation of Radon levels in spring water with metrological parameters and seismic events in Garhwal Himalaya. Environmental Geochemistry, 9(1), 76-79.

36. Choubey, V.M., Bartarya, S.K. and Ramola, R.C. 2006. Geological Controls on Radon in Soil and water of Pithoragarh region, Kumaun Himalaya, India. In: Geological Aspects of Radon Risk Mapping (Eds. I. Barnet, M. Neznal, P. Pacherova) Czech Geol. Survey, Prague. pp. 72 - 78.

37    Yogesh Prasad, Ganesh Prasad, Gusain,G.S., Manjari Badoni, Choubey,V.M. & Ramola, R.C. 2007. Environmental Gamma Dose Rate Measurements in Himalayan Region.  Proc. Fifteenth National Symposium on Environment, Coimbatore, India.  492-495.

38.   Choubey, V.M., Mukherjee, P.K., Bajwa, B.S. and Walia, V. 2007. Geological and tectonic influence on water-soil radon relationship in Mandi-Manali area, Himachal Himalaya. Environmental Geology, 52(6), 1163-1171.

39.    Ramola, R.C., Choubey, V.M., Negi, M.S., Yogesh Prasad and Ganesh Prasad. 2008. Radon occurrence in soil-gas and groundwater around an active landslide. Radiation Measurements. 43(1), 98-101.

40.  Yogesh, P., Ganesh,P., Gusai, G.S., Ramola, R.C. and Choubey, V.M., 2008. Soil exhaulation rate from soil  samples of south Kumaun, Lesser Himalaya, India. Radiation Measurements. Volume 43, Issue (SUPPL.1), S369-S374

41.  Ramola, R.C., Yogesh Prasad, Ganesh Prasad, Kumar, S. and Choubey, V.M., 2008. Soil-gas radon as seismotectonic indicator in Garhwal Himalaya.  Jour. Applied Rad. Isotopes. 66(10),1523-1530.

42. Arora, B. R., Kamal., Kumar, A., Rawat, G., Kumar N and Choubey, V.M. 2008. First observations of free   oscillations of the earth  from Indian superconducting gravimeter in Himalaya. Current Science,95(11), 1611-1617.

43   Yogesh P., Ganesh Prasad., Choubey, V.M. and  Ramola. R.C.  2009. Geohydrological control on radon availability in groundwater. Radiation Measurements. 44, 122-126.

44   Yogesh Prasad., Ganesh Prasad., Gusain,G.S.,Choubey,V.M. and Ramola, R. C. 2009.  Seasonal variation of radon emission from soil and water.  Ind. Jour. Phys. 83(7), 1001-1010.

45  Choubey, V.M., Naresh Kumar and Arora, B.R. 2009. Precursory signatures in the radon and geo-hydrological borehole data for M4.9 Kharsali Earthquake of Garhwal Himalaya. Science of the Total Environment, 407, 5877-5883.

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