Constraining nitrogen inputs to urban streams from leaking sewers using inverse modeling: Implications for dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) retention in urban environments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1816-1823

  Divers, Marion T ^a   Elliott, Emily M ^a   Bain, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEFLOWS; DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGENS; HIGH RATE; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; INTENSIVE SAMPLING; INVERSE METHODS; INVERSE MODELING; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NITROGEN BUDGETS; NITROGEN POLLUTION; NUTRIENT BUDGETS; PENNSYLVANIA; PITTSBURGH; POLLUTANT LOADINGS; SEWER INFRASTRUCTURE; SEWER OVERFLOWS; SEWER SYSTEM; SUMMER STORMS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN STREAM; URBAN WATERSHED; WATER SAMPLES; WATERSHED BUDGET;

BUDGET CONTROL; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LANDFORMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLLUTION; RIVER POLLUTION; SEWAGE; SEWERS; SURFACE WATERS; WATERSHEDS;

NITROGEN;

GROUND WATER; NITRATE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC NITROGEN; SURFACE WATER;

BASEFLOW; DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGEN; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LEAKAGE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; NUTRIENT BUDGET; SEWAGE; SEWER NETWORK; STREAM; SUBURBAN AREA; SURFACE WATER; URBAN DRAINAGE; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); LIMIT OF DETECTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; PRECIPITATION; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWER; URBAN AREA; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

CITIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NITROGEN; PENNSYLVANIA; RAIN; RIVERS; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

PENNSYLVANIA; PITTSBURGH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874074589     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304331m     Document Type: Article

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