Coastal waters monitoring data: Frequency distributions of the principal water quality variables

Journal of Limnology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 65-82

  Giovanardi, Franco ^a   Finoia, Maria Grazia ^a   Russo, Simone ^a   Amori, Marina ^a   Di Lorenzo, Bianca ^a  

^a Central Institute for Marine Research ICRAM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coastal eutrophication; Coastal waters; Frequency distributions; Johnson's distributions; Monitoring data processing; Normal law approximation; TRIX Index

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATER; DATA PROCESSING; EUTROPHICATION; MONITORING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ADRIATIC SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCANY;

EMILIA;

EID: 33847257385     PISSN: 11295767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/jlimnol.2006.65     Document Type: Article

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