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Water Quality In Chesapeake Bay : Virginia Portion, Water Year 1993 : A Report To The Virginia Department Of Environmental Quality, Kevin Curling, Bruce Neilson

Reports

The Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Monitoring Program (WQMP) has three main objectives: (1) characterization of water quality conditions, (2) detection of temporal and spatial trends in water quality, and (3) creation of a data base that furthers our understanding of the processes that control water quality in the Chesapeake Bay system. The purpose of this report is to characterize water quality conditions in the Virginia portion of Chesapeake Bay during the 1993 water year, which runs from October 1992 through September 1993. These monitoring efforts have been conducted with funding from the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Commonwealth of …

Chesapeake Bay Atlas, Us Epa Monitoring Program Water Quality Data 1984-1991, Sarah E. Rennie, Bruce Neilson

Data

The original data is in the folder RAWDATA under the folder DOSISO. Within RAWDATA there are 3 subdirectories : TSOPH holds temperature, salinity, diss.O2 and pH. WQ9 h

olds Chl-A, PO4,TotalN, NH4, Nitrate, Si, TOC, TSS & TotalP WQ6 holds DissInorgN, NO2, Part.PHOS, Part.C, Part.N, and TDissN The original measurements are held in columnar ASCII text files suitable for importing into spreadsheets (columns separated by spaces, not tabs). The files are arranged in subdirectories by water year (October through September). The data is as it came from the US EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office in Annapolis (CSC) in November 1992. …