Towards a model of spray-canopy interactions: Interception, shatter, bounce and retention of droplets on horizontal leaves

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 290, Issue C, 2014, Pages 94-101

  Dorr, Gary J ^a   Kempthorne, Daryl M ^b   Mayo, Lisa C ^b   Forster, W Alison ^c   Zabkiewicz, Jerzy A ^d   McCue, Scott W ^b   Belward, John A ^b   Turner, Ian W ^b   Hanan, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c Plant Protection Chemistry NZ Ltd   (New Zealand)

^d SciCon Scientific Consultants   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agrichemical spray; Droplet impaction; Leaf surface model; Mathematical model; Pesticide application; Spray retention

Indexed keywords

COTTON; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PESTICIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY); SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

AGRICHEMICALS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; ECONOMICALLY VIABLE; ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE; INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE; LEAF SURFACES; PESTICIDE APPLICATIONS; STATIC CONTACT ANGLE;

DROPS;

CANOPY; COTTON; DICOTYLEDON; DROPLET; FARMING SYSTEM; FIELD METHOD; FOLIAGE; INTERCEPTION; PESTICIDE; RETENTION; SPRAY; TOPOGRAPHY; WHEAT;

CHENOPODIUM; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84923378639     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.11.002     Document Type: Article

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