Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Johnston, Carey Andrew
Author's Email Address	johnston@erols.com
URN	etd-091799-174256
Title	Development and Evaluation of Infilling Methods for Missing Hydrologic and Chemical Watershed Monitoring Data
Degree	Master of Engineering
Department	Environmental Engineering
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Grizzard, Thomas J. Committee Chair Godrej, Adil N. Committee Member Post, Harold E. II Committee Member
Keywords	infilling models watershed monitoring surface water quality quality assurance and control pollutant load calculation nonpoint source pollution missing data
Date of Defense	1999-05-07
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Watershed monitoring programs generally do not have perfect data collection success rates due to a variety of field and laboratory factors. A major source of error in many stream-gaging records is lost or missing data caused by malfunctioning stream-side equipment. Studies estimate that between 5 and 20 percent of stream-gaging data may be marked as missing for one reason or another. Reconstructing or infilling missing data methods generate larger sets of data. These larger data sets generally generate better estimates of the sampled parameter and permit practical applications of the data in hydrologic or water quality calculations. This study utilizes data from a watershed monitoring program operating in the Northern Virginia area to: (1) identify and summarize the major reasons for the occurrence of missing data; (2) provide recommendations for reducing the occurrence of missing data; (3) describe methods for infilling missing chemical data; (4) develop and evaluate methods for infilling values to replace missing chemical data; and (5) recommend different infilling methods for various conditions. An evaluation of different infilling methods for chemical data over a variety of factors (e.g., amount of annual rainfall, whether the missing chemical parameter is strongly correlated with flow, amount of missing data) is performed using Monte Carlo modeling. Using the results of the Monte Carlo modeling, a Decision Support System (DSS) is developed for easy application of the most appropriate infilling method.
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