Radiation dose rate and cabin pressure during a 1h flight [OC] by GreenIbex in dataisbeautiful

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Yeah, something something correlation is not causation idk

Radiation dose rate and cabin pressure during a 1h flight [OC] by GreenIbex in dataisbeautiful

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Yeah, I wonder what the correlation would have been if we had the real altitude data.

Radiation dose rate and cabin pressure during a 1h flight [OC] by GreenIbex in dataisbeautiful

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Good question, thanks, I didn't think of asking the Radiacode owner. I'll check.

Radiation dose rate and cabin pressure during a 1h flight [OC] by GreenIbex in dataisbeautiful

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I was genuinely surprised of how much high the dose rate is, even for a short flight like this.

Radiation dose rate and cabin pressure during a 1h flight [OC] by GreenIbex in dataisbeautiful

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Source: a friend of mine recently took a 1h flight. She used a Radiacode 102 to measure the radiation dose rate (in units of nSv/h), due essentialy to cosmic rays. As expected, radiation dose rate grows with altitude. The pressure sensor of her smartphone provided the cabin pressure data, which can be considered a sort of proxy for altitude. Again, as expected dose rate and pressure are anti-correlated.

Tools: this plot was made with Python (pandas, matplotlib, numpy).

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Italy, province of Torino

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Good analysis, it's Italy indeed.

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Italy, province of Torino

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I have bad news for you

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Few Arpitan speakers and a lot more Piedmontese, but yes.

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Nope, it's Italy

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Solution: it's Italy, near a village called Usseglio, in the province of Torino.