Simulation of bromide and nitrate leaching under heavy rainfall and high-intensity irrigation rates in North China Plain

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1646-1654

  Wang, Huanyuan ^a   Ju, Xiaotang ^a   Wei, Yongping ^b   Li, Baoguo ^a   Zhao, Lulu ^a   Hu, Kelin ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accumulative nitrate; Bromide; Excessive irrigation; Heavy rainfall; HYDRUS 1D model; Nitrate leaching

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATIVE NITRATE; HEAVY RAINFALL; HYDRUS-1D; HYDRUS-1D MODEL; NITRATE LEACHING;

BROMINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; FERTILIZERS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; IRRIGATION; LEACHING; NITRATES; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

RAIN;

BROMIDE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LEACHING; NITRATE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL PROFILE;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

EID: 77954536617     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2010.05.022     Document Type: Article

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