Colorado Real-time Water Quality Surrogates

USGS station:

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Constituent:
Time period:
Model Form:

At this site, real-time estimates of water quality depend on the availability of instantaneous discharge and specific conductivity measurements. During winter months, real-time water quality estimates may not be available for this site due to effects of ice.

Model Form #1

ln(DSR) = 8.1063 - 0.3043 ln(Q)

where:

Model Calibration

Basic Data

Number of measurements: 12
Mean squared error: 0.00665856
Multiple R2: 0.929
Bias correction (smearing) factor: 1

Explanatory Variables

VariableValueStandard error
Intercept8.10630.0874
ln(Q) -0.30430.0266

Correlation Matrix

Interceptln(Q)
Intercept1-0.9631
ln(Q) -0.96311

Reference