Determining critical water quality conditions for inorganic nitrogen in dry, semi-urbanized watersheds

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 721-735

  Keller, Arturo A ^a   Zheng, Yi ^a   Robinson, Timothy H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Inorganic nitrogen; Loads; Low flow; Runoff; Storm water; TMDL; Watershed modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DATA REDUCTION; NITROGEN; RIVERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STORMS; URBAN PLANNING; WATERSHEDS;

DATASETS; FLOW CONDITIONS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; URBANIZATION;

WATER QUALITY;

INORGANIC NITROGEN; RUNOFF; STORMWATER; URBAN DRAINAGE; WATER QUALITY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SANTA CLARA RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4544286054     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2004.tb04455.x     Document Type: Article

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