Table 2.

Results of the Field Measurements and of the Monte Carlos Simulation of 52 Field Measurements During the Last Four (Long) Sampling Campaigns

		Mean	Standard Deviation	Difference Between Means, del.m (Equation 1a)	Difference in Mean Step Size, del.Diff.m (Equation 1b)	First Order Autocorrelation	Second Order Autocorrelation
Field measurements (n = 52)		0.973	0.859	0.709	0.068	0.196	0.258
MCS Model 1 (Equation 2) (n = 106)	Average	0.973	0.855	0.957	−0.265	−0.020	0.001
	2.5%-ile	0.740	0.693	0.659	−0.717	−0.287	−0.267
	97.5%-ile	1.207	1.025	1.270	0.251	0.249	0.267
	p-value	50%	53%	5%	91%	94%	97%
MCS Model 2 (Equation 3) (n = 106)	Average	0.979	0.847	0.894	−0.111	0.145	0.164
	2.5%-ile	0.708	0.692	0.624	−0.588	−0.105	−0.082
	97.5%-ile	1.252	1.017	1.169	0.474	0.381	0.395
	p-value	49%	57%	9%	77%	65%	77%

p-value: MCS quantile of the measured statistic level.

MCS: Monte Carlo simulation, 1 million random realizations, with each realization consisting of a simulation of 52 field measurements.