Effects of land cover, topography, and built structure on seasonal water quality at multiple spatial scales

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 209-210, Issue , 2012, Pages 48-58

  Pratt, Bethany ^a   Chang, Heejun ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Geographically weighted regression; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CONTRIBUTING AREAS; DEVELOPMENT; DISTANT SOURCE; DRY SEASONS; GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION; LAND COVER; MODEL ACCURACY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; REGRESSION METHOD; REGRESSION MODEL; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; SPATIAL SCALE; STREAM TEMPERATURES; STREAM WATER QUALITY; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; URBAN LAND COVER; WASHINGTON; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS; WET SEASON;

DROUGHT; POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

LANDFORMS;

LAND COVER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIPARIAN ZONE; STREAMWATER; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BUILDING; GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; LAND USE; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARE; PH; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SEASON; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL SOIL VARIABILITY; STREAM (RIVER); TEMPERATURE; TOPOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

OREGON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; WASHINGTON; WATER;

CLARK COUNTY [WASHINGTON]; OREGON; PORTLAND [OREGON]; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84857368925     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.12.068     Document Type: Article

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