This paper described the variability of stream temperature,
, and compared relationships between
and air temperature,
, at 10 sites along a 1.2 km reach in a 2 km
basin in New Jersey, USA, using Bayesian
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This paper described the variability of stream temperature,
, and compared relationships between
and air temperature,
, at 10 sites along a 1.2 km reach in a 2 km
basin in New Jersey, USA, using Bayesian Hierarchical Regression. Mean daily mean
was significantly cooler at two sites and significantly warmer at three sites relative to the mean daily
for all sites combined. Seasonal daily mean
showed the greatest variation between sites in the summer within the reach for both daily mean and daily maximum temperatures. Posterior distributions for slope parameters (
) for regressions varied significantly by season and showed the greatest variation in summer. The strongest relationships occurred in autumn with
(
), and the weakest relationships occurred in the summer with
(
). Results support the conclusion that riparian shading impacts the effect of
on
, and that
shows a stronger relationship with measured
at sites in open areas that are more likely to have meteorologic conditions similar to bulk conditions.
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