- Title
- Prediction of water temperature metrics using spatial modelling in the Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa
- Creator
- Rivers-Moore, Nick A, Mantel, Sukhmani K, Dallas, Helen F
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Type
- report
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438180
- Identifier
- vital:73441
- Identifier
- ISBN 1816-7950
- Identifier
- https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/2651.pdf
- Description
- Key aspects of a river’s temperature regime are described by magnitudes, timing and durations of thermal events, and frequencies of extreme exceedance events. To understand alterations to thermal regimes, it is necessary to describe thermal time series based on these statistics. Classification of sites based on their thermal met-rics, and understanding of spatial patterns of these thermal statistics, provides a powerful approach for comparing study sites against reference sites. Water tem-perature regime dynamics should be viewed regionally, where regional divisions have an inherent underpinning by an understanding of natural thermal variability. The aim of this research was to link key water temperature metrics to readi-lymapped environmental surrogates, and to produce spatial images of temperature metrics: 37 temperature metrics were derived for 12 months of sub-daily water temperatures at 90 sites in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces, South Africa.
- Format
- 10 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Water Research Commission
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Rivers-Moore, N.A., Mantel, S. and Dallas, H.F., 2012. Prediction of water temperature metrics using spatial modelling in the Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa. Water SA, 38(2), pp.167-176
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