Coastal strategies to predict Escherichia coli concentrations for beaches along a 35 km stretch of southern Lake Michigan

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4454-4460

  Nevers, Meredith B ^a   Whitman, Richard L ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LAKES; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBIDITY; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; WATER POLLUTION;

(SEMI-)EMPIRICAL MODELS; DATA LIMITATIONS; E. COLI; EMPIRICAL MODELING (EM); HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; INDIANA; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); LAKE MICHIGAN; MODELING STUDIES; NEARSHORE CURRENTS; SPATIAL SCALING; WAVE HEIGHTS; WIND DIRECTION (WD);

BEACHES;

BEACH; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TURBIDITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; COASTAL WATERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METEOROLOGY; NONHUMAN; SEASHORE; TURBIDITY; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRESH WATER; INDIANA; MICHIGAN; RECREATION; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 45249104389     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es703038c     Document Type: Article

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