Detecting characteristic hydrological and biogeochemical signals through nonparametric scatter plot analysis of normalized data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Green, Mark B ^a,b,c   Finlay, Jacques C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); LANDFORMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATERSHEDS;

DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; DATA NORMALIZATION; DATA SETS; DATA SYNTHESIS; GENERAL TRENDS; LARGE DATA SETS; MASKING CHARACTERISTIC; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; NON-PARAMETRIC; NORMALIZED DATA; REGIONAL SCALES; SCATTER PLOT SMOOTHING; SCATTER PLOTS; SEASONAL TRENDS; SITE-SPECIFIC; STREAM CHEMISTRY; STREAM DISCHARGE; TOTAL NITROGEN; UNITED STATES; WATERSHED PROCESSES;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DATA SET; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SMOOTHING; WATERSHED;

EID: 53849147547     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006509     Document Type: Article

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