Long-Term Trends of Nutrients and Sediment from the Nontidal Chesapeake Watershed: An Assessment of Progress by River and Season

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1534-1555

  Zhang, Qian ^a   Brady, Damian C ^b   Boynton, Walter R ^c   Ball, William P ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chesapeake Bay; Long term seasonal trends; Nonpoint source pollution; Nutrient and sediment loadings; Water quality modeling; Watershed management; Watershed monitoring; Weighted regressions on time, discharge, and season

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; LANDFORMS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; SEASONAL TRENDS; SEDIMENT LOADING; WATER QUALITY MODELING; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED MONITORING; WEIGHTED REGRESSION;

NUTRIENTS;

INORGANIC NITROGEN; INORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PARTICULATE INORGANIC MATTER; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; CONOWINGO RESERVOIR; SUSQUEHANNA RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84983179890     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12327     Document Type: Article

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