Estimating Nitrate-N Losses from Subsurface Drains Using Variable Water Sampling Frequencies

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1033-1040

  Wang, X ^a,b   Frankenberger, J R ^a   Kladivko, E J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mass loss estimation; Nitrate N; Sample frequency; Subsurface drainage; Water quality

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA REDUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NITRATES; WATER QUALITY;

SUBSURFACE DRAINS;

DRAINAGE;

DRAINAGE WATER; LEACHING; MASS BALANCE; NITRATE; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 0242350336     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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