Error bounds analysis of the environmental data in Lake Shihwa and Incheon coastal zone

Abstract

The characteristic analysis of the estimated population parameters, i.e., standard deviation and error bound of coastal pollutant concentrations (hereafter PC, i.e., COD, TN, and TP concentrations), was carried out by using environmental data with different sampling frequency in Lake Shihwa and Incheon coastal zone. The results clearly show that standard deviation of the PC increases as its mean value increases. The error bounds of the annual mean values based on seasonally measured DO concentrations and PC data in Incheon coastal zone were estimated as ranges 2.26 mg/l, 0.68-0.86 mg/l, 0.62-0.80 mg/l, and 0.074-0.082 mg/l, respectively. In terms of annual mean of the DO concentration and PC in Lake Shihwa, the error bounds based on monthly measured data from 1997 to 2003 were also estimated as ranges 4.0 mg/l, 3.0 mg/l, 0.5-1.0 mg/l, and 0.05 mg/l, respectively. The error bound on the basis of real-time monitoring data is 7-13% only as compared to that of monthly measured data.