title: A Web-Based Decision Support System for Assessing Regional Water-Quality Conditions and Management Actions.
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: Nathaniel L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Booth
authors.forename: Eric J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Everman
authors.forename: I-Lin
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.forename: Lori
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sprague
authors.forename: Lorraine
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Murphy