Effect of moisture on fine dust emission from tillage operations on agricultural soils

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1851-1863

  Funk, Roger ^a   Reuter, Hannes I ^b   Hoffmann, Carsten ^a   Engel, Wolfgang ^a   Öttl, Dietmar ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c Air Quality Department of Styria   (Austria)

Author keywords

Emission; Particulate matter; Soil moisture; Tillage

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CLARIFICATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DISPERSIONS; DUST; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; EROSION; EVAPORATION; GROUNDWATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; PERMITTIVITY; SAND; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); TUNNELS; UNDERWATER SOILS; VAPORS; WATER CONTENT; WIND TUNNELS;

AFFECTED AREAS; AGRICULTURAL SOILS; CLAYEY SOILS; DUST EMISSIONS; EMISSION; EMISSION FACTORS; EMISSION POTENTIALS; FIELD CAPACITIES; FIELD MEASUREMENTS; FIELD OPERATIONS; GRAVITATIONAL SEPARATORS; IN FIELDS; INFLUENCING FACTORS; LABORATORY METHODS; LAGRANGIAN DISPERSION MODELS; MEASURED DATUMS; MECHANICAL DISTURBANCES; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; NATURAL WINDS; ORGANIC SOILS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PARTICULATE MATTER EMISSIONS; PM EMISSIONS; ROOT ZONES; SANDY SOILS; SEEDBED PREPARATIONS; SILTY SOILS; SOIL MOISTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; SOIL MOISTURE PROFILES; SOIL TYPES; SOIL WATERS; SURFACE SOILS; TILLAGE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; PARTICULATE MATTER; SILTY SOIL; SOIL EMISSION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL WATER; TILLAGE;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 57749202884     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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