A sensor network for high frequency estimation of water quality constituent fluxes using surrogates

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1031-1044

  Horsburgh, Jeffery S ^a   Spackman Jones, Amber ^a   Stevens, David K ^a   Tarboton, David G ^a   Mesner, Nancy O ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental observatory; Flux; High frequency monitoring; Sensor network; Surrogate; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS TIME; DATA MANAGEMENT; DATA STORAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATORY; FLOW PATH; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY DATA; HIGH FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS; HIGH-FREQUENCY MONITORING; IN-SITU; LOW FREQUENCY; PROCESSING INFRASTRUCTURES; RIVER WATERSHEDS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE; SURROGATE DATA; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS; UTAH , USA; WATER-BORNE;

BUILDINGS; DATA PROCESSING; LANDFORMS; MONITORING; OBSERVATORIES; PHOSPHORUS; SENSOR NETWORKS; TIME SERIES; TURBIDITY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

PHOSPHORUS; SAMPLING; SENSOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURROGATE METHOD; TIME SERIES; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY;

LITTLE BEAR BASIN; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 77954863760     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.10.012     Document Type: Article

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