River Loads Underestimated by Rating Curves
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Water Resources Research
- Vol. 22 (1) , 74-76
- https://doi.org/10.1029/wr022i001p00074
Abstract
Statistical considerations show that the sediment, solute, or pollutant load of a river is likely to be underestimated by methods in which unmeasured concentrations are estimated from discharge using a least squares regression for the logarithm of concentration. The degree of underestimation increases with the degree of scatter about the rating curve and can reach 50%. A simple correction factor is proposed and tested successfully on simulated and real data sets.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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