Combining model results and monitoring data for water quality assessment

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 5007-5013

  Qian, Song S ^a   Reckhow, Kenneth H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); NUTRIENTS; WATERSHEDS;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL COVERAGE;

WATER QUALITY;

CHLOROPHYLL A; NITROGEN; WATER;

CALIBRATION; CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); NUTRIENTS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CHLOROPHYLL; MONITORING; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DATA ANALYSIS; ESTUARY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT LOADING; QUALITY CONTROL; WATER QUALITY; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING;

NEUSE ESTUARY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; WATER;

EID: 34547158721     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es062420f     Document Type: Article

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