Elements of a predictive model for determining beach closures on a real time basis: The case of 63rd Street Beach Chicago

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 98, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 175-190

  Olyphant, Greg A ^a   Whitman, Richard L ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beach closures; E. coli; Statistical forecasting equations

Indexed keywords

LAKE STAGE; WIND SPEED;

DATA REDUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; RAIN;

BATHING WATER; BEACH; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; FORECASTING METHOD; MARINE POLLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; WATER QUALITY;

ACCURACY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CALIBRATION; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOMETRY; HEAT STROKE; HYDROLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAKE; METEOROLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; SOLAR RADIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWIMMING; TURBIDITY; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; WIND;

BATHING BEACHES; CHICAGO; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FORECASTING; FRESH WATER; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; WEATHER;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 4344652216     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EMAS.0000038185.79137.b9     Document Type: Article

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