{"id":41,"date":"2015-05-20T23:45:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T03:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/?p=41"},"modified":"2015-05-20T23:53:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T03:53:01","slug":"data-from-the-water-treatment-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/2015\/05\/20\/data-from-the-water-treatment-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Data from the water treatment plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trevor and I have been trying to figure out what the nitrate signal at the water treatment plant (WTP) looks like.\u00a0 We have data downstream that looks like a diurnal signal with some funky switches.\u00a0 Does the WTP have a funky source term?\u00a0 We moved my nitrate logger upstream to the WTP and found out that the nitrate signal and the fDOM (fluorescent dissolved organic matter) look the same.\u00a0 This pattern will help us interpret our data because we have a regular fDOM signal downstream and it doesn&#8217;t look at all like the nitrate signal\u00a0 Thus, the WTP isn&#8217;t the source of our funky switches!<\/p>\n<p>Here is a nice plot showing nitrate and fDOM from the WTP have the same signal<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2015\/05\/wtp_may.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2015\/05\/wtp_may-300x218.gif\" alt=\"wtp_may\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below are a couple of plots of the offset (&#8220;funky&#8221;) fDOM and nitrate signal from September 8 km downstream of the WTP<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2015\/05\/Ledger_sept2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-44\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2015\/05\/Ledger_sept2-300x218.gif\" alt=\"Ledger_sept2\" width=\"294\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2015\/05\/fdom_sept2b.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2015\/05\/fdom_sept2b-300x218.gif\" alt=\"fdom_sept2b\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trevor and I have been trying to figure out what the nitrate signal at the water treatment plant (WTP) looks like.\u00a0 We have data downstream that looks like a diurnal signal with some funky switches.\u00a0 Does the WTP have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/2015\/05\/20\/data-from-the-water-treatment-plant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}