A comparison of spray drift predictions to lidar data

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 88, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 15-26

  Stoughton, Thomas E ^a   Miller, David R ^a   Yang, Xiusheng ^a   Ducharme, Kirk M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Lidar system; Oak forest; Pesticides; Temperature; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

FOREST; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SPRAY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; LIDAR; MICROMETEOROLOGY; PESTICIDE; SPRAY; TEMPERATURE; TURBULENCE; WIND;

EID: 0031592289     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(97)00056-7     Document Type: Article

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