nsink: An R package for flow path nitrogen removal estimation.

ABSTRACT

The nsink package estimates cumulative nitrogen (N) removal along a specified flow path and is based on methodologies outlined in Kellogg et al. (2010). For a user-specified watershed (i.e., hydrologic unit code (HUC)), nsink downloads all required datasets from public datasets in the United States, prepares data for use, summarizes N removal along a flow path and creates several static maps. The results of an nsink analysis may be exported to standard geospatial files for use in other applications.