Total maximum daily load criteria assessment using monitoring and modeling data

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1134-1149

  Keisman, Jeni ^a,b   Shenk, Gary ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b AAAS   (United States)

^c US Environmental Protection Agency/CBPO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chesapeake Bay; Chesapeake TMDL; Chlorophyll; Decision support systems; Dissolved oxygen; Integrated environmental models; Simulations; TMDLs; Water quality standards; Watershed management

Indexed keywords

CHESAPEAKE; CHESAPEAKE BAY; ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL; SIMULATIONS; TMDLS; WATER QUALITY STANDARD; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHLOROPHYLL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL CONSERVATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

MONITORING;

BAY; CALIBRATION; CHLOROPHYLL A; CRITICAL LOAD; DATA SET; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MODEL VALIDATION; MONITORING; NUMERICAL MODEL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884979774     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jawr.12111     Document Type: Article

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