کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
7483971 1485277 2014 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
A screening-level modeling approach to estimate nitrogen loading and standard exceedance risk, with application to the Tippecanoe River watershed, Indiana
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی انرژی انرژی های تجدید پذیر، توسعه پایدار و محیط زیست
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
A screening-level modeling approach to estimate nitrogen loading and standard exceedance risk, with application to the Tippecanoe River watershed, Indiana
چکیده انگلیسی
This paper presents a screening-level modeling approach that can be used to rapidly estimate nutrient loading, assess numerical nutrient standard exceedance risk of surface waters leading to potential classification as impaired for designated use, and explore best management practice (BMP) implementation to reduce loading with a relatively low data requirement. The modeling framework uses a hybrid statistical and process based approach to estimate source of pollutants, their transport and decay in the terrestrial and aquatic parts of watersheds. The framework is developed in the ArcGIS environment and is based on the total maximum daily load (TMDL) balance model. Nitrogen (N) is currently addressed in the framework, referred to as WQM-TMDL-N. Loading for each catchment includes non-point sources (NPS) and point sources (PS). The probability of a nutrient load to exceed a target load is evaluated using probabilistic risk assessment, by including the uncertainty associated with export coefficients of various land uses. In an application of this modeling approach to the Tippecanoe River watershed in Indiana, USA, total nitrogen (TN) loading, confidence interval and risk of standard exceedance leading to potential impairment were estimated. Model results suggest that decay coefficients decrease, and delivery fractions increase with increasing stream order. The spatial distribution pattern of delivered incremental TN yield shows a trend similar to that of the delivery fraction in this watershed. The target TN exceedance risk increases considerably when switching from Indiana draft-N benchmark to far lower EPA-proposed TN criteria, suggesting that load reduction to meet the latter criteria may benefit from BMP implementation through source control and delivery reduction.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Environmental Management - Volume 135, 15 March 2014, Pages 1-10
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