A temporal compositional analysis of water quality monitoring data

Publication Name
International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Modelling (METMA4)
Publisher
Editrice Democratica Sarda (EDES)
ISBN
88-6025-098-6
Abstract
End-member mixing analysis (EMMA) is a method in hydrology for attempting to understand the characteristics of river catchments and involves determining relative proportions of constituent components using tracer data. We consider the case where there are no separate data available for the end-members, and develop a model for source distributions via non-linear regression on the tracer/flow rate relationship. We allow these source distributions to vary in time and apply the model to a data set from central Scotland comprised of weekly or fortnightly readings over eighteen years.
Year
2008
Category
Book Chapter
Output Tags
SG 2006-2011 WP 3.4 Methods to Assess Water Quality