Development of a water quality modeling system for river pollution index and suspended solid loading evaluation

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 478, Issue , 2013, Pages 89-101

  Lai, Y C ^a   Tu, Y T ^a   Yang, C P ^b   Surampalli, R Y ^c   Kao, C M ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia nitrogen (NH3 N); River Pollution Index (RPI); River water quality; Suspended solid (SS); Watershed management

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA NITROGEN; CORRELATION EQUATION; CRITICAL FACTORS; FIELD DATA; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; INTEGRAL APPROACH; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; KAOPING RIVER; LOW FLOW; NONPOINT SOURCES; POLLUTION INDEX; RIVER FLOW; RIVER MANAGEMENT; RIVER WATER QUALITY; SOIL EROSION; SUSPENDED SOLIDS; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER QUALITY ANALYSIS SIMULATION PROGRAM; WATER QUALITY EVALUATION; WATER QUALITY INDEXES; WATER QUALITY MODELING; WATER QUALITY MODELS; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT; WET SEASON;

AMMONIA; CATCHMENTS; FLOW RATE; LOADING; POLLUTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SOIL CONSERVATION; STREAM FLOW; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

RIVER POLLUTION;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM COMPOUND; CATCHMENT; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; RIVER FLOW; RIVER POLLUTION; SUSPENDED LOAD; WATER QUALITY;

KAOPING BASIN; KAOPING RIVER; TAIWAN;

EID: 84871722660     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.11.050     Document Type: Article

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