Evaluation of EPIC for assessing tile flow and nitrogen losses for alternative agricultural management systems

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1135-1146

  Chung, Se Woong ^a   Gassman, Philip W ^b   Gu, Roy ^b   Kanwar, Rameshwar S ^c  

^a Korea Water Resources Corporation   (South Korea)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop rotation; Fertilizer; Modeling; Nitrate leaching; Tile drainage; Tillage systems; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DATA ACQUISITION; EROSION; NITROGEN;

TILE FLOW;

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING;

FLOW ANALYSIS; LEACHING; NITROGEN; SOIL; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

CROP YIELD; LEACHING; NITROGEN; SOIL WATER; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TILLAGE;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0036665531     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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