Geoscientific Model Development
Geoscientific Model Development
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 6
Articles | Volume 18, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-1989-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-1989-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 6
Development and technical paper
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27 Mar 2025
Development and technical paper |  | 27 Mar 2025

A Bayesian method for predicting background radiation at environmental monitoring stations in local-scale networks

Jens Peter Karolus Wenceslaus Frankemölle, Johan Camps, Pieter De Meutter, and Johan Meyers

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To detect anomalous radioactivity in the environment, it is paramount that we understand the natural background level. In this work, we propose a statistical model to describe the most likely background level and the associated uncertainty in a network of dose rate detectors. We train, verify, and validate the model using real environmental data. Using the model, we show that we can correctly predict the background level in a subset of the detector network during a known anomalous event.
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