A river monitoring system detects 23 short-duration pollution events (lasting 20 minutes to 3 hours) in its first year. The previous monthly manual sampling regime detected none of these events. What property of continuous monitoring enables this detection capability?

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Continuous monitoring records conditions at every moment, capturing transient events that occur and resolve between manual sampling visits

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Continuous monitoring stores data in a more efficient database format, making historical analysis faster

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Continuous monitoring costs less per reading than manual sampling, allowing more data to be collected

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Continuous monitoring uses more sensitive sensor technology than laboratory analysis of manual samples

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