Cost-effective water quality assessment through the integration of monitoring data and modeling results

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  LoBuglio, Joseph N ^a,b   Characklis, Gregory W ^a,b   Serre, Marc L ^a,b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WATER QUALITY;

BAYESIAN MAXIMUM ENTROPY (BME); CLEAN WATER ACT; MODEL PREDICTIONS;

WATER ANALYSIS;

CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

CHLOROPHYLL A; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LEGISLATION; WATER QUALITY;

CATAWBA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247625514     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005020     Document Type: Article

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