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, 2003.

Model Form #1

Cl = - 172 + 0.113 Q + 0.3194 SC

where:

Cl is computed chloride, in milligrams per liter
Q is computed discharge, stage-discharge rating curve, in cubic feet per second
SC is specific conductance at 25 degrees Celsius, in microsiemens per centimeter

Model Calibration

Basic Data

Number of measurements:	18
Mean squared error:	654.60245904
Multiple R²:	0.999
Bias correction (smearing) factor:	1

Explanatory Variables

Variable	Value	Standard error
Intercept	-172	14.8381
Q	0.113	0.030708
SC	0.3194	0.0030716

Correlation Matrix

	Intercept	Q	SC
Intercept	1	-0.703252	-0.875308
Q	-0.703252	1	0.554267
SC	-0.875308	0.554267	1

Reference

Christensen, V.G., 2001, Characterization of Surface-Water Quality Based on Real-Time Monitoring and Regression Analysis, Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, South-Central Kansas, December 1998 Through June 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4248, 28 p.