Retraction Note to: Environ Monit Assess (February 2015) 187, Issue 3:91

DOI 10.1007/s10661-015-4325-9

This article has been retracted by the Editor-in-Chief because the authors did not have permission (implicit or explicit) to publish the data used to validate the model, which was unpublished and was not contained in the cited unpublished PhD thesis by Sarah McManus (Trinity Centre for the Environment, Dublin, Ireland). Given the copyright and authorship issues involved, the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment article in question is being retracted. The authors apologize for their negligence.