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Water quality parameters interact in nature in complex ways. An example of this complex interaction is the dependence of nutrient concentration on temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, etc. This research presents a computational exploration of the dependence of several water quality variables on chlorophyll-a (chl-a) and phytoplankton. WASP water quality estimations for Nitrate (NO3), Phosphate (PO4), Ammonia (NH3), Dissolved Oxygen (DO), and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) were produced and the results were analyzed to determine the dependence of those variables on several water quality boundary conditions. The analysis was performed for the period December 31, 1998, to April 30, 1999. The paper shows how crucial are the seaward boundary data (in particular those of chl-a and phytoplankton) on the kinetics of water quality constituents in a coastal estuary.
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Alarcon, V.J. (2014). The Role of Boundary Conditions in Water Quality Modeling. In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014. ICCSA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8581. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09150-1_53
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