Determining storm sampling requirements for improving precision of annual load estimates of nutrients from a small forested watershed

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4747-4762

  Ide, Jun'Ichiro ^a   Chiwa, Masaaki ^b   Higashi, Naoko ^b   Maruno, Ryoko ^b   Mori, Yasushi ^c   Otsuki, Kyoichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping method; Diffuse pollution; Dissolved and particulate nutrients; Mountainous watershed; Precision and accuracy; Sampling strategies

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL NUTRIENT LOADS; BOOTSTRAP SIMULATION; BOOTSTRAPPING METHOD; COEFFICIENT OF VARIANCE; CUMULATIVE LOADS; DATA SETS; DIFFUSE POLLUTION; DISCHARGE LEVEL; DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGENS; DISSOLVED NITROGEN; DISSOLVED NUTRIENTS; FORESTED WATERSHEDS; GOODNESS OF FIT; PRECISION AND ACCURACY; RANDOM SAMPLING; REGRESSION EQUATION; SAMPLING DESIGN; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; SAMPLING TECHNIQUE; STORM EVENTS; STREAM DISCHARGE; STREAM WATER; SUSPENDED SOLIDS; WATER SAMPLES;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DISSOLUTION; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; WATERSHEDS;

STORMS;

DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGEN; DISSOLVED NITROGEN; DISSOLVED PHOSPHORUS; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

BOOTSTRAPPING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGEN; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOSPHORUS; STREAM; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTECOLOGY; BOOTSTRAPPING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CUMULATIVE LOAD; CUMULATIVE STREAM DISCHARGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FORESTED WATERSHED; HURRICANE; HYDROLOGY; NUTRIENT LOAD; RANDOM SAMPLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STREAM (RIVER); SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING; WATERSHED;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RIVERS; TREES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84864830528     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2299-9     Document Type: Article

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