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A Web-Based Decision Support System for Assessing Regional Water-Quality Conditions and Management Actions†

  1. Nathaniel L. Booth1,
  2. Eric J. Everman2,
  3. I-Lin Kuo2,
  4. Lori Sprague3,
  5. Lorraine Murphy2

Article first published online: 8 AUG 2011

DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2011.00573.x

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JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association

JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volume 47, Issue 5, pages 1136–1150, October 2011

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Booth, N. L., Everman, E. J., Kuo, I.-L., Sprague, L. and Murphy, L. (2011), A Web-Based Decision Support System for Assessing Regional Water-Quality Conditions and Management Actions. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 47: 1136–1150. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2011.00573.x

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  1. 1

    Respectively, IT Specialist (Booth), U.S. Geological Survey, Center for Integrated Data Analytics, Middleton, Wisconsin 53562

  2. 2

    Senior Software Developer (Everman, Kuo), Data Manager (Murphy), U.S. Geological Survey, Center for Integrated Data Analytics, Middleton, Wisconsin 53562

  3. 3

    Hydrologist (Sprague), U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado Water Science Center, Denver, Colorado 80225

*(E-Mail/Booth: nlbooth@usgs.gov).

  1. †

    Paper No. JAWRA-10-0177-P of the Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA). Discussions are open until six months from print publication.

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Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 10 OCT 2011
  2. Article first published online: 8 AUG 2011
  3. Received October 7, 2010; accepted May 6, 2011.

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Keywords:

  • assessment;
  • communication;
  • environmental management;
  • water-quality planning;
  • Geographical Information System;
  • geospatial analysis;
  • Internet;
  • decision support system;
  • simulation;
  • water

Booth, Nathaniel L., Eric J. Everman, I-Lin Kuo, Lori Sprague, and Lorraine Murphy, 2011. A Web-Based Decision Support System for Assessing Regional Water-Quality Conditions and Management Actions. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 47(5):1136-1150. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2011.00573.x

Abstract:  The U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Assessment Program has completed a number of water-quality prediction models for nitrogen and phosphorus for the conterminous United States as well as for regional areas of the nation. In addition to estimating water-quality conditions at unmonitored streams, the calibrated SPAtially Referenced Regressions On Watershed attributes (SPARROW) models can be used to produce estimates of yield, flow-weighted concentration, or load of constituents in water under various land-use condition, change, or resource management scenarios. A web-based decision support infrastructure has been developed to provide access to SPARROW simulation results on stream water-quality conditions and to offer sophisticated scenario testing capabilities for research and water-quality planning via a graphical user interface with familiar controls. The SPARROW decision support system (DSS) is delivered through a web browser over an Internet connection, making it widely accessible to the public in a format that allows users to easily display water-quality conditions and to describe, test, and share modeled scenarios of future conditions. SPARROW models currently supported by the DSS are based on the modified digital versions of the 1:500,000-scale River Reach File (RF1) and 1:100,000-scale National Hydrography Dataset (medium-resolution, NHDPlus) stream networks.

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