Linking agricultural crop management and air quality models for regional to national-scale nitrogen assessments

Biogeosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 4023-4035

  Cooter, E J ^a   Bash, J O ^a   Benson, V ^b   Ran, L ^c  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b Benson Consulting   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NITROGEN;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867836149     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-9-4023-2012     Document Type: Article

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