Selected 1985-2016 data for eight (8) stations from the Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program. Water quality variables are stored as either class 'num' for variables with no censoring or class 'Surv' (see survival::Surv) that allows for left- and interval-censored data.

dataCensored

Format

A data frame with 13,062 rows and 17 variables:

station

station identifier

date

sample date

layer

sample layer

secchi

Secchi depth [m]

salinity

Salinity [ppt]

do

Dissolved Oxygen [mg/L]

wtemp

Water Temperature [deg C]

chla

Corrected Chlorophyll-a [ug/L]

tn

Total Nitrogen [mg/L]

tp

Total Phosphorus [mg/L]

tss

Total Suspended Solids [mg/L]

din

Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen [mg/L]

po4

Orthophosphorus [mg/L]

tdn

Total Dissolved Nitrogen [mg/L]

tdp

Total Dissolved Phosphorus [mg/L]

nh4

Ammonium [mg/L]

no23

Nitrite + Nitrate [mg/L]