Water quality monitoring strategies and their effects on mass load calculation

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 817-829

  Miller, Paul S ^a   Mohtar, Rabi H ^b   Engel, Bernard A ^b  

^a Waterborne Environmental Inc   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mass load error; Sampling strategies; Water quality monitoring

Indexed keywords

CHEMOGRAPHS; MASS LOAD ERROR; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; WATER QUALITY MONITORING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; RUNOFF; SAMPLING; WATERSHEDS;

WATER QUALITY;

COMPOSTING; DISCHARGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SAMPLING; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

EID: 34447508141     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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