Technical Note: Assessing a 24/7 solution for monitoring water quality loads in small river catchments

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3093-3100

  Jordan, P ^a,c   Cassidy, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c TEAGASC   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOSAMPLERS; DATA COVERAGE; DATA SETS; DIURNAL SIGNALS; INTERPOLATION METHOD; MONITORING WATER QUALITY; PHOSPHORUS CONCENTRATION; POINT SOURCES; PROCESS SIGNALS; RIVER CATCHMENT; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; SEDIMENT LOADS; SHORT DURATION EVENTS; STORM EVENTS; TECHNICAL NOTES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; PHOSPHORUS; RUNOFF; STORMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; DATA SET; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; SAMPLER; SAMPLING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 80054034130     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-3093-2011     Document Type: Article

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