A Multi-Agency Nutrient Dataset Used to Estimate Loads, Improve Monitoring Design, and Calibrate Regional Nutrient SPARROW Models

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 933-949

  Saad, David A ^a   Schwarz, Gregory E ^b   Robertson, Dale M ^a   Booth, Nathaniel L ^a  

^a WISCONSIN WATER SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Load estimation; Monitoring; Nutrients; Rivers streams; SPARROW; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL NUTRIENT LOADS; DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTIC; LOAD ESTIMATION; LOCAL AGENCIES; MODEL CALIBRATION; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; REGIONAL MODELING; RIVERS/STREAMS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SPARROW;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MONITORING; STATISTICS;

NUTRIENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FEDERAL SYSTEM; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053908960     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2011.00575.x     Document Type: Article

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