High-frequency water quality monitoring in an urban catchment: hydrochemical dynamics, primary production and implications for the Water Framework Directive

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 3388-3407

  Halliday, Sarah J ^a   Skeffington, Richard A ^a   Wade, Andrew J ^a   Bowes, Michael J ^b   Gozzard, Emma ^b   Newman, Jonathan R ^b   Loewenthal, Matthew ^c   Palmer Felgate, Elizabeth J ^b   Jarvie, Helen P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diurnal dynamics; instream productivity; phosphorus; sewage treatment works; The Cut; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CATCHMENTS; DATA STREAMS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DYNAMICS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; EUTROPHICATION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRODUCTIVITY; RUNOFF; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

CONVENTIONAL MONITORING; DIURNAL DYNAMICS; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS; THE CUT; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES; WATER QUALITY MONITORING; WATER SUPPLY NETWORKS;

RIVERS;

INSTREAM FLOW; MICROORGANISM; MONITORING; PHOSPHORUS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

ENGLAND; THAMES RIVER [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84946228917     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10453     Document Type: Article

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