Modeling nitrous oxide emissions from irrigated agriculture: Testing DayCent with high-frequency measurements

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 528-538

  Scheer, Clemens ^a   Del Grosso, Stephen J ^b,c   Parton, William J ^c   Rowlings, David W ^a   Grace, Peter R ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotton wheat cropping; DayCent; Fertilizer N application rate; Irrigation intensity; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL EMISSION; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; COTTON; CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EMISSION INVENTORY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; NITROUS OXIDE; SOIL MOISTURE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; VERTISOL; WHEAT;

AUSTRALIA;

NITROUS OXIDE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOSSYPIUM; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WHEAT;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOSSYPIUM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROUS OXIDE; QUEENSLAND; SOFTWARE; TRITICUM;

EID: 84901637497     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0570.1     Document Type: Article

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