Kansas Real-Time Water Quality

USGS station:	Go to NWISWeb
Constituent:
Time period:
Model Form:

Model Form #1

log₁₀(TSS) = 0.242 + 0.985 log₁₀(TURB)

where:

TSS is computed total suspended solids, in milligrams per liter
TURB is turbidity, YSI model 6136, in formazin nephelometric units

Model Calibration

Basic Data

Number of measurements:	22
Mean squared error:	0.05212089
Multiple R²:	0.95
Bias correction (smearing) factor:	1.13

Explanatory Variables

Variable	Value	Standard error
Intercept	0.242	0.1162
log₁₀(TURB)	0.985	0.0526

Correlation Matrix

	Intercept	log₁₀(TURB)
Intercept	1	-0.9081
log₁₀(TURB)	-0.9081	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

does not match, in a MAJOR way, the cited model, which was written as: logTN = 0.0006log(Turb, YSI 6136)+0.0483sin(2*pi*day/365)+0.2205cos(2*pi*day/365)+0.296 The model here in NRTWQ does _not_ lot transform turbidity, whereas the one above does.