nsink: An R package for flow path nitrogen removal estimation

Jeffrey W Hollister1, Dorothy Q Kellogg2, Qian Lei-Parent3

  • 1U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Atlantic Coastal Environmental Sciences Division, Narragansett, RI 02882.

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