Simulating ensembles of source water quality using a K-nearest neighbor resampling approach

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1407-1411

  Towler, Erin ^a   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^a,b   Seidel, Chad ^c   Summers, R Scott ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Damon S Williams Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAP APPROACHES; DRINKING WATER QUALITIES; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; FEATURE VECTORS; INFORMATION COLLECTIONS; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; NON-PARAMETRIC; RE-SAMPLING APPROACHES; SIMULATION TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL DATUM; SURFACE WATER QUALITIES; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBONS; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCIES; WATER QUALITY DATUM; WEIGHT FUNCTIONS;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; FIRE HAZARDS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; ORGANIC CARBON; POTABLE WATER; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; SURFACE WATERS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

BROMIDE; ORGANIC CARBON;

BOOTSTRAPPING; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MODELING; SAMPLING; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; STREAM (RIVER); WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ALKALIES; BROMIDES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NEW JERSEY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PLIABILITY; RIVERS; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 64349086803     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8021182     Document Type: Article

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