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Continuous Recording of Water Quality in the Delaware Estuary
Author(s) -
McCartney David,
Beamer Norman H.
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1962.tb00959.x
Subject(s) - estuary , environmental science , hydrology (agriculture) , water quality , sampling (signal processing) , quality (philosophy) , volume (thermodynamics) , oceanography , geology , ecology , telecommunications , engineering , biology , geotechnical engineering , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , detector
This paper discusses a highly instrumented program in the Delaware estuary to study the water quality of the Delaware River. Continuous recording, supplemented with periodic hand sampling, offers a new approach to collecting water quality data. The volume of data that has been collected over the past 10 years can now be collected in a few weeks with continuous recorders, although a determination of the extremes of seasonal variations may require a few more years. With data of higher statistical correlation, more accurate predictions of the immediate river quality, conditions, and trends are possible.