Measuring and modelling ammonia emissions from a regular pattern of cattle urine patches

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 156, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-17

  Laubach, Johannes ^a   Taghizadeh Toosi, Arezoo ^b,d   Sherlock, Robert R ^b   Kelliher, Francis M ^c  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c AGRESEARCH LTD   (New Zealand)

^d LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ammonia volatilisation; Backward Lagrangian stochastic model; Cattle urine; Mass balance; Resistance model; ZINST method

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CATTLE; DIFFUSION; MASS BALANCE; MICROMETEOROLOGY; PH; SAMPLING; SANDY LOAM; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STOCHASTICITY; URINE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VOLATILIZATION;

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EID: 84856032427     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.12.007     Document Type: Article

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