Use of an inverse dispersion technique for estimating ammonia emission from surface-applied slurry

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 999-1002

  Sanz, Alberto ^a   Misselbrook, Thomas ^b   Sanz, Maria José ^c   Vallejo, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ammonia emission; Backward Lagrangian stochastic method; Central Spain; Dispersion model; Micrometeorological technique

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DISPERSIONS; FERTILIZERS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AMMONIA EMISSIONS; CENTRAL SPAIN; DISPERSION MODELING; LAGRANGIAN STOCHASTIC METHOD; MICROMETEOROLOGICAL TECHNIQUES;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

AMMONIA; NITROGEN;

AMMONIA; DATA SET; DISPERSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEM; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MANURE; MICROMETEOROLOGY; MODEL; SLURRY; STOCHASTICITY;

AGRICULTURAL SLURRY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

SPAIN;

SUIDAE;

EID: 75449106991     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.08.044     Document Type: Article

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