Kansas Real-Time Water Quality

Kansas Real-Time Water Quality

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Funding to maintain the continuous water-quality monitor at this site ended on December 31, 2007.

Model Form #1

log₁₀(Ca) = 0.198 + 0.5962 log₁₀(SC)

where:

Ca is computed calcium, in milligrams per liter as calcium
SC is specific conductance at 25 degrees Celsius, in microsiemens per centimeter

Model Calibration

Basic Data

Number of measurements:	22
Mean squared error:	0.00519841
Multiple R²:	0.68
Bias correction (smearing) factor:	1.01

Explanatory Variables

Variable	Value	Standard error
Intercept	0.198	0.2399
log₁₀(SC)	0.5962	0.0865

Correlation Matrix

	Intercept	log₁₀(SC)
Intercept	1	-0.9979
log₁₀(SC)	-0.9979	1

Reference

Rasmussen, T.J., Lee, C.J., and Ziegler, A.C., 2008, Estimation of Constituent Concentrations, Loads, and Yields in Streams of Johnson County, Northeast Kansas, Using Continuous Water-Quality Monitoring and Regression Models, October 2002 through December 2006: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5014, 103 p.

Notes

not a perfect match with cited model, which is listed as: logCA = 0.562logSC+0.198