Regulatory FOCUS surface water models fail to predict insecticide concentrations in the field

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 8397-8404

  Knäbel, Anja ^a   Stehle, Sebastian ^a   Schäfer, Ralf B ^a   Schulz, Ralf ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 SIMULATIONS; DATA SETS; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; FATE MODEL; FIELD STUDIES; INPUT PARAMETER; MEASURED FIELD; MODEL RESULTS; MODELING APPROACH; ORGANOCHLORINE INSECTICIDES; PREDICTED ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS; PYRETHROIDS; REGULATORY FOCUS; REGULATORY RISKS; WATER CONCENTRATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; INSECTICIDES;

SURFACE WATERS;

INSECTICIDE; ORGANOCHLORINE INSECTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; PYRETHROID; SURFACE WATER;

DATA SET; FIELD SURVEY; HYDROPHOBICITY; PESTICIDE; REGULATORY APPROACH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SURFACE WATER; WATER POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EXTRACTION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEASURED FIELD CONCENTRATION; MODEL; PREDICTED ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATION; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

INSECTICIDES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84864723778     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es301649w     Document Type: Article

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