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Other Subject Keywords

rivers, water quality, WRTDS, WRTDS-Kalman, trends, suspended sediment, Kalman filtering, phosphorus, nitrogen, load analysis, nutrients, weighted regression

Place Keywords

United States, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Washington DC, Delaware, Virginia, Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Chesapeake Bay River Input Monitoring Network 1985-2020: WRTDS output data

Nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended-sediment loads, and changes in loads, in major rivers across the Chesapeake Bay watershed have been calculated using monitoring data from the Chesapeake Bay River Input Monitoring (RIM) Network stations for the period 1985 through 2020. Nutrient and suspended-sediment loads and changes in loads were determined by applying a weighted regression approach called WRTDS (Weighted Regression on Time, Discharge, and Season). The load results represent the total mass of nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended sediment that was exported from each of the RIM watersheds.

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Author(s) Christopher A Mason, Alexander M Soroka, Douglas L Moyer orcid, Joel D Blomquist orcid
Publication Date 2021-09-16
Beginning Date of Data 1984-10-01
Ending Date of Data 2020-09-30
Data Contact
Christopher A. Mason
DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P93PZGMM
Citation Mason, C.A., Soroka, A.M., Moyer, D.L., and Blomquist, J.D., 2021, Chesapeake Bay River Input Monitoring Network 1985-2020: WRTDS output data: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P93PZGMM.
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Christopher A. Mason
Metadata Date 2021-09-16
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