"This technical memorandum is based primarily on the final grant report to Ed Pniak, GLRI Project Officer, Michigan Project Lead, U.S. EPA, Region 5, Water Division, State and Tribal Programs Branch for GL- 00E00658. The grant is titled '60 Hour Beach Forecasting Models.' The principle investigators are Allen Burton, Kent Campbell, and David Rockwell. This technical memorandum provides beach managers with a tool to forecast several days in advance the likelihood of E. coli concentrations exceeding the state single sample regulatory standard. This predictive beach water quality management tool is the only beach management decision support system (DSS) capable of forecasting several days in advance the beach water quality bacterial concentrations because it limits the explanatory variables to those variables for which the National Weather Service (NWS) is able to make forecasts"--Abstract.

Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)

Great Lakes (North America)