Toward disentangling the effect of hydrologic and nitrogen source changes from 1992 to 2001 on incremental nitrogen yield in the contiguous United States

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Alam, Md Jahangir ^a   Goodall, Jonathan L ^a  

^a The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; HYDROLOGIC CHANGES; HYDROLOGIC CONDITIONS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MODEL COEFFICIENT; MODEL RESULTS; NATIONAL LAND-COVER DATUM; NITROGEN SOURCES; REGRESSION MODEL; RELATIVE IMPACT; SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS; STREAM QUALITY; STUDY AREAS; TIME-PERIODS; UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; URBAN WATERSHED; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ESTIMATION; LANDFORMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

NITROGEN;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; LAND USE; NITROGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAMWATER; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859768064     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010967     Document Type: Article

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