Predicting water quality impaired stream segments using landscape-scale data and a regional geostatistical model: A case study in Maryland

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 121, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 613-636

  Peterson, Erin E ^a   Urquhart, Scott N ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Dissolved organic carbon; Geostatistics; Hydrologic distance; Streams; Water quality monitoring

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE WATERS; WATERSHEDS; WETLANDS;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; STRAIGHT-LINE DISTANCE; WATER QUALITY IMPAIRED STREAM SEGMENTS; WEIGHTED ASYMMETRIC HYDROLOGIC DISTANCE;

WATER QUALITY;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC CARBON; CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MODELING; PREDICTION; STREAMWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KRIGING; LANDSCAPE; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; STREAM (RIVER); TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATERSHED; WETLAND; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; RIVER; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER SUPPLY;

CARBON; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RIVERS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33750356507     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-005-9163-8     Document Type: Article

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