Surface water quality: Predicting runoff and associated nitrogen losses from turfgrass using the Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM)

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 350-358

  Schwartz, Liliana ^a   Shuman, Larry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; IRRIGATION; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SURFACE WATERS;

NUTRIENT; ROOT ZONE WATER QUALITY MODEL (RZWQM); SURFACE RUNOFF VOLUME; TURFGRASS;

WATER QUALITY;

FERTILIZER; NITRATE; NITROGEN; RAIN; RUNOFF;

ARTICLE; EXPOSURE; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MEASUREMENT; MODEL; MONITORING; NUTRIENT; SIMULATION; TURFGRASS; WATER QUALITY; CHEMISTRY; FORECASTING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT ROOT; POACEAE; SOIL POLLUTANT; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT;

CYNODON; CYNODON DACTYLON; POACEAE;

FERTILIZERS; FORECASTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN; PLANT ROOTS; POACEAE; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 17244377553     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2005.0350     Document Type: Article

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