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Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-589-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-589-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
Review article
 | 
02 May 2019
Review article |  | 02 May 2019

30 years of European Commission Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring data bank (REMdb) – an open door to boost environmental radioactivity research

Marco Sangiorgi, Miguel Angel Hernández Ceballos, Giorgia Iurlaro, Giorgia Cinelli, and Marc de Cort

Data sets

REM data bank – Years 1984–2006 M. De Cort, M. Sangiorgi, M. A. Hernandez Ceballos, S. Vanzo, E. Nweke, P. V. Tognoli, and T. Tollefsen https://doi.org/10.2905/jrc-10117-10024

REM data bank – Years 2007–2011 M. De Cort, M. Sangiorgi, M. A. Hernandez Ceballos, S. Vanzo, E. Nweke, P. V. Tognoli, and T. Tollefsen https://doi.org/10.2905/de42f259-fafe-4329-9798-9d8fabb98de5

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Short summary
REMdb was created in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident (1986) by the European Commission. Since then it has been maintained with the aim to keep a historical record of the Chernobyl accident and to store the radioactivity monitoring data gathered through the national environmental monitoring programs of the European Union member states. To date, the total number of data records stored in REMdb exceeds 5 million, in this way providing a valuable archive for everyone.
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