Is it possible to predict the salinity of Iberian salt lakes from their conductivity?
✍ Scribed by P. Alcorlo; A. Baltanás; C. Montes
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 382 KB
- Volume
- 330
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1573-5141
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✦ Synopsis
Conductivity measures have been widely used to estimate salinity, an obvious feature of salt lakes . Regression analysis using log-log linear model provides an adequate approach to the study of the relationship between both variables . However, actual use of that kind of statistical model suffers too frequently from lack of correctness . We have studied conductivity-salinity relationships for 69 salt lakes (128 samples) on the Iberian peninsula . Despite the satisfactory fit of the data to the model (r 2 = 0 .88), predictive efficiency is shown to be low . This feature, which is likely to be common to this relationship anywhere, is mainly related to heterogeneity in ionic composition .
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