Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 156, Issue 3, Pages 1171-1181Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.04.005
Keywords
Pesticides; Sensitivity; SWAT; Watershed; Water quality
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- Coalition for Urban/Rural Environmental Stewardship
- California State Water Quality Control Board
- Wenzhou Medical College [XNK07035]
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The hydrology, sediment, and pesticide transport components of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) were evaluated on the northern San Joaquin Valley watershed of California. The Nash-Sutcliffe coefficients for monthly stream flow and sediment load ranged from 0.49 to 0.99 over the watershed during the study period of 1992-2005. The calibrated SWAT model was applied to simulate fate and transport processes of two organophosphate pesticides of diazinon and chlorpyrifos at watershed scale. The model generated satisfactory predictions of dissolved pesticide loads relative to the monitoring data. The model also showed great success in capturing spatial patterns of dissolved diazinon and chlorpyrifos loads according to the soil properties and landscape morphology over the large agricultural watershed. This study indicated that curve number was the major factor influencing the hydrology while pesticide fate and transport were mainly affected by surface runoff and pesticide application and in the study area. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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