Impact of land application method on ammonia loss from hog lagoon effluent

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 963-973

  Shah, Sanjay B ^a   Balla, Biswa K ^b   Grabow, Garry L ^a   Westerman, Philip W ^a   Bailey, Danny E ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOCE Consultants Pvt Ltd   (Nepal)

^c NC Cooperative Extension   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid scrubber; Drag hose; Drift; Evaporation; Integrated horizontal flux; Traveling gun; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA VOLATILIZATION; BERMUDAGRASSES; CROP HEIGHT; DRIFT; HORIZONTAL FLUXES; LAND APPLICATIONS; MICROMETEOROLOGICAL METHODS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; TOTAL AMMONIACAL NITROGEN; TRAVELING GUN; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED MEASUREMENT;

ACIDS; AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DRAG; EVAPORATION; HOSE; LAKES; MOISTURE; SCRUBBERS; TANNING; VAPORS; WIND EFFECTS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CYNODON (ANGIOSPERM); SUIDAE;

EID: 74049093199     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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