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MONITORING TRANSIENT WATER QUALITY EVENTS ELECTRONICALLY 1
Author(s) -
Whitfield Paul H.,
Wade Norman L.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1992.tb01492.x
Subject(s) - transient (computer programming) , data acquisition , data quality , data collection , water quality , quality (philosophy) , computer science , streams , environmental science , remote sensing , real time computing , engineering , statistics , geography , physics , mathematics , ecology , metric (unit) , computer network , operations management , biology , operating system , quantum mechanics
Electronic instruments are ideally suited to gathering information regarding transient events. Data loggers equipped with water quality sensors offer an opportunity to study events on fine time scales which cannot be sampled using other means. The utility and significance of this type of data gathering is illustrated with data gathered from two small streams. Three examples are used to illustrate some types of transients that can be observed using electronic data acquisition techniques.