Prediction of weekly nitrate-N fluctuations in a small agricultural watershed in Illinois

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 251-261

  Markus, Momcilo ^a   Hejazi, Mohamad I ^b   Bajcsy, Peter ^c   Giustolisi, Orazio ^d   Savic, Dragan A ^e  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Drinking water; Forecasting; Genetic algorithms; Naive Bayes model; Nitrate N

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149451063     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2010.064     Document Type: Article

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