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  <dc:contributor>E.J. Everman</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>I.-L. Kuo</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>L. Sprague</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>L. Murphy</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>N.L. Booth</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2011</dc:date>
  <dc:description>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. ?? 2011 American Water Resources Association. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1111/j.1752-1688.2011.00573.x</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:title>A Web-Based Decision Support System for Assessing Regional Water-Quality Conditions and Management Actions</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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