Patterns of spatial autocorrelation in stream water chemistry

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 121, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 569-594

  Peterson, Erin E ^a   Merton, Andrew A ^b   Theobald, David M ^b   Urquhart, N Scott ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Hydrologic distance; Scale; Spatial autocorrelation; Stream networks; Water chemistry; Weighted asymmetric hydrologic distance

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER ANALYSIS;

SPATIAL CORRELATION; STRAIGHT-LINE DISTANCE; STREAM NETWORKS; SYMMETRIC HYDROLOGIC DISTANCE; WEIGHTED ASYMMETRIC HYDROLOGIC DISTANCE;

SURFACE WATERS;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFATE; WATER;

AUTOCORRELATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MODELING; PH; STREAMWATER; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; KRIGING; METHODOLOGY; PH MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; RESPONSE VARIABLE; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STREAM (RIVER); SURFACE WATER HYDROLOGY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; UNITED STATES; CHEMICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACTUAL DATABASE; GEOLOGY; RIVER;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RIVERS; WATER;

EID: 33750325128     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-005-9156-7     Document Type: Article

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