Summary of Monitoring Findings for Fiscal Year 2004: Figure 13
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Chlorophyll-a concentrations (µg/L) in the Mississippi
River at (A) northern and (B) southern Long Term
Resource Monitoring Program study areas in winter random sampling,
Upper Mississippi River System, 19942004. Data are from all
strata. No stratified random sampling data were collected in 2003.
The boundary of the box closest to zero indicates the 25th percentile,
a line within the box marks the median, and the boundary of the box
farthest from zero indicates the 75th percentile. Whiskers (error
bars) above and below the box indicate the 90th and 10th percentiles.