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Virtual Beach v2.2 User Guide
Citation:
CYTERSKI, M. J., K. L. WOLFE, M. GALVIN, AND R. S. PARMAR. Virtual Beach v2.2 User Guide. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-12/024.
Impact/Purpose:
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Description:
Virtual Beach version 2.2 (VB 2.2) is a decision support tool. It is designed to construct site-specific Multi-Linear Regression (MLR) models to predict pathogen indicator levels (or fecal indicator bacteria, FIB) at recreational beaches. MLR analysis has outperformed persistence models (using the most recent FIB concentration as the sole predictor of the next FIB concentrations, i.e., yt = yt-1) at beaches where conditions, such as weather, water conditions, and human and animal traffic levels, change significantly from day to day (Frick, Ge et al. 2008).
Record Details:
Record Type:DOCUMENT( PUBLISHED REPORT/ USER'S GUIDE)
Product Published Date:03/01/2012
Record Last Revised:12/26/2012
OMB Category:Other
Record ID:
241934