Assessing the impact of regional rainfall variability on rapid pesticide leaching potential

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 113, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 56-65

  McGrath, Gavan ^a   Hinz, Christoph ^a   Sivapalan, Murugesu ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Pesticide; Preferential flow; Rainfall; Risk assessment; Runoff; Seasonality; Solute transport; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

PREFERENTIAL FLOW; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CHEMICALS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LEACHING; PESTICIDES; RISK MANAGEMENT; RUNOFF; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SORPTION; THUNDERSTORMS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

GROUND WATER; PESTICIDE; RAIN;

LEACHING; PESTICIDE; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; RAINFALL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUNOFF; SEASONALITY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SORPTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; THUNDERSTORM;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW KINETICS; LEACHING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; SOIL TEXTURE; STREAM (RIVER);

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; RAIN; SEASONS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77949272101     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

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