Tracing catchment fine sediment sources using the new SIFT (SedIment Fingerprinting Tool) open source software.

ABSTRACT: The mitigation of diffuse sediment pollution requires reliable provenance information so that measures can be targeted. Sediment source fingerprinting represents one approach for supporting these needs, but recent methodological developments have resulted in an increasing complexity of data processing methods rendering the approach less accessible to non-specialists. A comprehensive new software programme (SIFT; SedIment Fingerprinting Tool) has therefore been developed which guides the user through critical data analysis decisions and automates all calculations. Multiple source group configurations and composite fingerprints are identified and tested using multiple methods of uncertainty analysis. This aims to explore the sediment provenance information provided by the tracers more compre

SUBMITTER: Pulley S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6024566 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature