Sensors in the stream: the high-frequency wave of the present

Rode, Michael; Wade, Andrew J.; Cohen, Matthew J.; Hensley, Robert T.; Bowes, Michael J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0673-1934; Kirchner, James W.; Arhonditsis, George B.; Jordan, Phil; Kronvang, Brian; Halliday, Sarah J.; Skeffington, Richard A.; Rozemeijer, Joachim C.; Aubert, Alice H.; Rinke, Karsten; Jomaa, Seifeddine. 2016 Sensors in the stream: the high-frequency wave of the present. Environmental Science & Technology, 50 (19). 10297-10307. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b02155

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Abstract/Summary

New scientific understanding is catalyzed by novel technologies that enhance measurement precision, resolution or type, and that provide new tools to test and develop theory. Over the last 50 years, technology has transformed the hydrologic sciences by enabling direct measurements of watershed fluxes (evapotranspiration, streamflow) at time scales and spatial extents aligned with variation in physical drivers. High frequency water quality measurements, increasingly obtained by in situ water quality sensors, are extending that transformation. Widely available sensors for some physical (temperature) and chemical (conductivity, dissolved oxygen) attributes have become integral to aquatic science, and emerging sensors for nutrients, dissolved CO2, turbidity, algal pigments, and dissolved organic matter are now enabling observations of watersheds and streams at time scales commensurate with their fundamental hydrological, energetic, elemental, and biological drivers. Here we synthesize insights from emerging technologies across a suite of applications, and envision future advances, enabled by sensors, in our ability to understand, predict, and restore watershed and stream systems.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b02155
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Rees (from October 2014)
ISSN:	0013-936X
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment Biology and Microbiology Chemistry
Date made live:	11 Oct 2016 09:57 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514782

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b02155

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Rees (from October 2014)

ISSN:

0013-936X

NORA Subject Terms:

Ecology and Environment
Biology and Microbiology
Chemistry

Date made live:

11 Oct 2016 09:57 +0 (UTC)