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"@context": "http://schema.org/", "@type": "WebPage", "additionalType": "Program", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/pennsylvania-water-science-center/science/pennsylvania-super-gages", "headline": "Pennsylvania Super Gages", "datePublished": "February 16, 2021", "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "A. Thomas Ruby", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/a-thomas-ruby" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Joe Duris", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/joe-duris", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "orcid", "value": "0000-0002-8669-8109" } } ], "description": [ { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Super gages provide real-time, continuous water-quality information for rivers and streams at selected USGS streamgages in Pennsylvania." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Current super gage projects in Pennsylvania include:" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "USGS scientists can continuously estimate water quality constituents that are difficult to measure in real-time by combining discrete and continuous data in statistical models. For example, in-stream turbidity sensors are often used to continuously estimate suspended sediment concentrations. Continuously measured and estimated concentrations, as well as loads (mass transported downstream), are publicly accessible on USGS web pages." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "What is a Super Gage?" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "A gage at which continuous flow and water level are determined, along with continuous traditional water-quality (water temperature, specific conductance, pH, dissolved oxygen, and/or turbidity) and either of the following criteria: at least one other less-traditional continuous water-quality parameter (orthophosphate, nitrate concentration) and/or where surrogates (developed from regression models) which are used to estimate time series concentrations of constituents (such as suspended sediment, total nitrogen or total phosphorous)." } ], "funder": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Pennsylvania Water Science Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/pennsylvania-water-science-center" }, "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Water" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Real-time Water Quality Monitoring" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Energy" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Environmental Health" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Water Quality and Ecology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Science Technology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Geology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Information Systems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Surface Water" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Methods and Analysis" } ]
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