Increasing precision of turbidity-based suspended sediment concentration and load estimates

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1306-1316

  Jastram, John D ^a   Zipper, Carl E ^b   Zelazny, Lucian W ^b   Hyer, Kenneth E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC SYSTEM; C CONTENTS; EFFECTIVE TOOL; ESTIMATION MODELS; ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; ESTIMATION VARIANCE; HYDROLOGIC SYSTEMS; IN-SITU; MODELING RESULTS; QUALITY PARAMETERS; SEDIMENT LOADING; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SOURCE AREA; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS; TEMPORAL SCALE; UNIVARIATE MODELS; VIRGINIA;

ESTIMATION; LOADING; MODELS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WATER CONTENT;

TURBIDITY;

ARTICLE; HYDROLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHOTOMETRY; PROCEDURES; SEDIMENT; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; SOIL; VIRGINIA; WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

SOIL; WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

EID: 77955633269     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2009.0280     Document Type: Article

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