A comparison of statistical approaches for predicting stream temperatures across heterogeneous landscapes

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 986-997

  Wehrly, Kevin E ^a   Brenden, Travis O ^b   Wang, Lizhu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geospatial analysis; Landscape features; Mixed models; Rivers streams; Temperature; Watershed management

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MODELING; COST PROHIBITIVE; GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES; LANDSCAPE FEATURES; LEAST SQUARE; MICHIGAN; MIXED MODELS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; ORDINARY KRIGING; PREDICTION ACCURACY; REGIONAL SCALE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; RUNNING WATERS; SMOOTHING SPLINE; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; SPATIAL EXTENT; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL MODELS; STREAM TEMPERATURES; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT; WISCONSIN;

LANDFORMS; SOIL CONSERVATION; WATER; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

FORESTRY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSCAPE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREAM; WATER FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED;

MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 68749107356     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2009.00341.x     Document Type: Article

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