What about upwind buffer zones for aerial applications?

Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 333-336

  Kirk, Ivan W ^a   Teske, Milton E ^a   Thistle, Harold W ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial application; Aerial sprays; Buffer strips; Drift; Models; Spray drift; Upwind buffer zone

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PESTICIDES; SPRAYING;

AERIAL APPLICATIONS; SPRAY DRIFT; UPWIND BUFFER ZONES;

AGRICULTURE;

PESTICIDE;

AEROSOL; AGRICULTURE; AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AEROSOLS; AGRICULTURE; AIR MOVEMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PESTICIDES;

EID: 0036689237     PISSN: 10747583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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