Advancing watershed legacy nitrogen modeling to improve global water quality

HE Golden, GR Evenson, JR Christensen… - … science & technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Despite widespread implementation of watershed nitrogen reduction programs across the
globe, nitrogen levels in many surface waters remain high. Watershed legacy nitrogen …

Nitrate isotopes in catchment hydrology: insights, ideas and implications for models

I Matiatos, C Moeck, Y Vystavna, H Marttila… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Models that simulate water flow and quality, particularly related to nitrate ions, are
commonly used on a catchment-scale. However, tracking nitrate ions is a challenging task …

Assessing temporal dynamics of nitrogen surplus in Indian agriculture: district scale data from 1966 to 2017

SS Goyal, R Kumar, U Bhatia - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Nitrogen (N) is essential for agricultural productivity, yet its surplus poses significant
environmental risks. Currently, over half of applied nitrogen is lost, resulting in resource …

Toward Understanding of Long‐Term Nitrogen Transport and Retention Dynamics Across German Catchments

TV Nguyen, FJ Sarrazin, P Ebeling… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐term nitrogen (N) transport and retention dynamics across catchments are not well
understood. Using a process‐based model for 89 German catchments, results across study …

Data-driven approaches demonstrate legacy N accumulation in Upper Mississippi River Basin groundwater

KJ Van Meter, VO Schultz… - Environmental Research …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Increases in nitrogen (N) fertilizer application, livestock densities, and human population
over the last century have led to substantial increases in nitrate contamination. While …

[HTML][HTML] Legacy nutrients in the Baltic Sea drainage basin: How past practices affect eutrophication management

B Müller-Karulis, ML McCrackin, B Dessirier… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
We have constructed a nutrient fate model for the Baltic Sea that links anthropogenic
nitrogen and phosphorus inputs to the catchment to the dynamics of waterborne loads to the …

[HTML][HTML] From Iron Curtain to green belt: shift from heterotrophic to autotrophic nitrogen retention in the Elbe River over 35 years of passive restoration

A Wachholz, JW Jawitz, D Borchardt - Biogeosciences, 2024 - bg.copernicus.org
We investigate changes to in-stream nitrogen retention and metabolic processes in the Elbe
River between 1978 and 2020. We analyzed multidecadal time series data and developed a …

[HTML][HTML] Can the young water fraction reduce predictive uncertainty in water transit time estimations?

A Borriero, TV Nguyen, SR Lutz, JH Fleckenstein… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Transit time distributions (TTDs) of streamflow are informative descriptors of catchment
hydrological functioning and solute transport mechanisms. Conventional methods for …

Toward representing the subsurface nitrate legacy through a coupled StorAge selection function and hydrological model (SWAT-SAS)

W Li, TV Nguyen, X Cheng, D Zhu, R Kumar - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
The transit time distribution (TTD) is a lumped method to characterize the diverse flow paths
of a hydrological system, and the StorAge Selection function (SAS) is one of the time-variant …

[HTML][HTML] Uncertainty in water transit time estimation with StorAge selection functions and tracer data interpolation

A Borriero, R Kumar, TV Nguyen… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2023 - hess.copernicus.org
Transit time distributions (TTDs) of streamflow are useful descriptors for understanding flow
and solute transport in catchments. Catchment-scale TTDs can be modeled using tracer …