baytrends
Long Term Water Quality Trend Analysis
Last update: 23 February 2024
Software version identifier: 2.0.8, 2.0.9, 1.0.7, 1.1.0, 1.2.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.7, 2.0.11
Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Enable users to evaluate long-term trends using a Generalized Additive Modeling (GAM) approach. The model development includes selecting a GAM structure to describe nonlinear seasonally-varying changes over time, incorporation of hydrologic variability via either a river flow or salinity, the use of an intervention to deal with method or laboratory changes suspected to impact data values, and representation of left- and interval-censored data. The approach has been applied to water quality data in the Chesapeake Bay, a major estuary on the east coast of the United States to provide insights to a range of management- and research-focused questions. Methodology described in Murphy (2019) <doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.03.027>.
