Figures

Figure 1. Location of USGS discharge stations, Everglades National Park rainfall stations, and S-12-A, B, C, and D structure locations.

Figure 2. Location of USGS discharge stations.

Figure 3. Index velocity to mean velocity regression relations for Lostmans Creek, Broad River, Harney River, Shark River, and North River stations.

Figure 4. Residual plots of index-to-mean velocity regression relations for Lostmans Creek, Broad River, Harney River, Shark River, and North River stations.

Figure 5. Typical instantaneous discharge cycle for five stations along the southwest coast of the Everglades National Park.

Figure 6. Monthly mean residual discharge for the five southwest coast stations, S-12-A, B, C, and D monthly mean discharge, and ENP average monthly total rainfall for 1997–2001.

Figure 7. Southwest coast stations monthly mean residual discharge to S-12-A, B, C, and D monthly mean discharge regression relation.

Figure 8. Monthly mean and 2-year average residual discharge distributions for selected periods of concurrent data between 1998-2000.

Figure 9. Southwest coast stations discharge to nutrient flux regression relations.

Figure 10. Southwest coast three and five station total nitrogen and total phosphorus flux distributions for selected periods of concurrent data.

Tables

Table 1. Southwest coast discharge station identification numbers and locations.

Table 2. Southwest coast station cross-sectional area regression equations.

Table 3. Index velocity regression equations and discharge error estimates using standard error estimate method.

Table 4. Computed discharge error estimation based on measured discharge and Wilcoxon Signed Ranks probability for determining median error is different from zero.

Table 5. Southwest coast station nitrogen concentration basic statistics.

Table 6. Southwest coast station phosphorus concentration basic statistics.

Table 7. Regression equations used to estimate total nitrogen flux.

Table 8. Regression equations used to estimate total phosphorus flux.