A note on the collection and cleaning of water temperature data

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 597-606

  Sowder, Colin ^a   Steel, E Ashley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Errors; Precision; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING; PRECISION; TEMPERATURE DATA; VISUAL COMPARISON; WASHINGTON STATE; WATER TEMPERATURE DATA; WATER TEMPERATURES;

ERRORS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA MANAGEMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; PRECISION; QUALITY CONTROL; WATER TEMPERATURE;

UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84878717519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w4030597     Document Type: Article

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