Sensitivity analyses for four pesticide leaching models

Pest Management Science

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 962-982

  Dubus, Igor G ^a,b   Brown, Colin D ^a   Beulke, Sabine ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Calibration; Leaching; Model; Pesticide; Sensitivity; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE; WATER;

LEACHING; PESTICIDE; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CLAY; CROP PROTECTION; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUROPE; LEACHING; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PREDICTION; REGISTRATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SANDY LOAM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; EUROPE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; PESTICIDES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 0042426099     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.723     Document Type: Article

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