Application of the Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM), to pesticide fate and transport: An overview

Pest Management Science

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-221

  Malone, Robert W ^a   Ahuja, Lajpat R ^a   Ma, Liwang ^a   Wauchope, R Don ^a   Ma, Qingli ^b   Rojas, Kenneth W ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Environmental and Turf Services Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Model validation; Pesticide degradation; Pesticide kinetics; Pesticide sorption; RZWQM

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

KINETICS; PESTICIDE; SOIL; SORPTION; WATER QUALITY;

KINETICS; PESTICIDE; ROOT; SORPTION; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOW RATE; HALF LIFE TIME; HEAT TRANSFER; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; RESEARCH; REVIEW; ROOT ZONE WATER QUALITY MODEL; SOIL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; PLANT ROOTS; SOIL; WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 1442278251     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.789     Document Type: Review

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