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EM: Nutrient Tracking Tool (NTT), Upper North Bosque River watershed, Texas, USA (EM-589)
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EM Identification
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EM ID
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EM-589 |
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EM Short Name
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Nutrient Tracking Tool (NTT), north central Texas, USA |
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EM Full Name
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Nutrient Tracking Tool (NTT), Upper North Bosque River watershed, Texas, USA |
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EM Source or Collection
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None |
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EM Source Document ID
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354 |
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Document Author
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Saleh, A., O. Gallego, E. Osei, H. Lal, C. Gross, S. McKinney, and H. Cover |
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Document Year
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2011 |
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Document Title
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Nutrient Tracking Tool - a user-friendly tool for calculating nutrient reductions for water quality trading |
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Document Status
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Peer reviewed and published |
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Comments on Status
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Published journal manuscript |
Software and Access
| http://ntt.tiaer.tarleton.edu/welcomes/new?locale=en | |
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Contact Name
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Ali Saleh |
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Contact Address
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Texas Institute for Applied Environmental Research-Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX 76401,USA |
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Contact Email
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saleh@tiaer.tarleton.edu |
EM Description
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Summary Description
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ABSTRACT: "The Nutrient Tracking Tool (NTrT) is an enhanced version of the Nitrogen Trading Tool, a user-friendly Web-based computer program originally developed by the USDA. The NTrT estimates nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus) and sediment losses from fields managed under a variety of cropping patterns and management practices through its user-friendly, Web-based linkage to the Agricultural Policy Environmental eXtender (APEX) model. It also accesses the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Web Soil Survey to utilize their geographic information system interface for field and operation identification and load soil information. The NTrT provides farmers, government officials, and other users with a fast and efficient method of estimating nitrogen and phosphorus credits for water quality trading, as well as other water quality, water quantity, and farm production impacts associated with conservation practices. The information obtained from the tool can help farmers determine the most cost-effective conservation practice alternatives for their individual operations and provide them with more advantageous options in a water quality credit trading program. An application of the NTrT to evaluate conservation practices on fields receiving dairy manure in a north central Texas watershed indicates that phosphorus-based application rates, filter strips, forest buffers, and complete manure export off the farm all result in reduced phosphorus losses from the fields on which those practices were implemented. When compared to a baseline condition that entailed manure application at the nitrogen agronomic rate of receiving crops, the reductions in total phosphorus losses associated with these practices ranged from 15% (2P Rate scenario) to 76% (forest buffer scenario)." AUTHOR'S DESCRIPTION: "This paper provides a brief overview of the NTrT and presents results of verification and application of the tool on a selected field on a test field in the Upper North Bosque River (UNBR) watershed in Texas…simulations for the baseline and all five alternative scenarios were replicated for each of 90 specific soil types in Erath County, Texas…results reported and discussed in this report represent the averages of the output for all soil types." |
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Specific Policy or Decision Context Cited
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None identified |
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Biophysical Context
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The UNBR watershed is comprised primarily of two main physiographic areas, the West Cross Timbers and the Grand Prairie Land Resource Areas. In the West Cross Timbers, soils are primarily fine sandy loams with sandy clay subsoils. Soils in the Grand Prairie area, on the other hand, are typically calcareous clays and clay loams (Ward et al. 1992). |
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EM Scenario Drivers
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Conservation management strategies to reduce phosphorus losses |
EM Relationship to Other EMs or Applications
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Method Only, Application of Method or Model Run
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Model Run Associated with a Specific EM Application |
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New or Pre-existing EM?
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15 m riparian forest buffer (Forest buffer) |
Related EMs (for example, other versions or derivations of this EM) described in ESML
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Document ID for related EM
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Doc-352 |
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EM ID for related EM
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None |
EM Modeling Approach
EM Relationship to Time
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EM Temporal Extent
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1960-2001 |
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EM Time Dependence
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time-dependent |
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EM Time Reference (Future/Past)
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future time |
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EM Time Continuity
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discrete |
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EM Temporal Grain Size Value
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1 |
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EM Temporal Grain Size Unit
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Day |
EM Spatial Extent
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Bounding Type
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Watershed/Catchment/HUC |
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Spatial Extent Name
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Upper North Bosque River watershed |
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Spatial Extent Area (Magnitude)
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100-1000 km^2 |
Spatial Distribution of Computations
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EM Spatial Distribution
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spatially lumped (in all cases) |
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Spatial Grain Type
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Not applicable |
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Spatial Grain Size
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Not applicable |
EM Structure and Computation Approach
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EM Computational Approach
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Numeric |
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EM Determinism
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deterministic |
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Statistical Estimation of EM
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Model Checking Procedures Used
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Model Calibration Reported?
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Yes |
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Model Goodness of Fit Reported?
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No |
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Goodness of Fit (metric| value | unit)
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None |
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Model Operational Validation Reported?
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No |
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Model Uncertainty Analysis Reported?
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No |
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Model Sensitivity Analysis Reported?
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No |
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Model Sensitivity Analysis Include Interactions?
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Not applicable |
EM Locations, Environments, Ecology
Location of EM Application
Terrestrial location (Classification hierarchy: Continent > Country > U.S. State [United States only])
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Marine location (Classification hierarchy: Realm > Region > Province > Ecoregion)
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Centroid Lat/Long (Decimal Degree)
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Centroid Latitude
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32.09 |
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Centroid Longitude
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-98.12 |
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Centroid Datum
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WGS84 |
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Centroid Coordinates Status
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Estimated |
Environments and Scales Modeled
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EM Environmental Sub-Class
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Agroecosystems |
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Specific Environment Type
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Rangeland and forage fields for dairy |
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EM Ecological Scale
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Ecological scale corresponds to the Environmental Sub-class |
Scale and taxa of organisms modeled
Scale of differentiation of organisms modeled
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EM Organismal Scale
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Not applicable |
Taxonomic level and name of organisms or groups identified
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| None Available |
EnviroAtlas URL
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| GAP Ecological Systems, Agricultural water use (million gallons/day), The Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD) |
EM Ecosystem Goods and Services (EGS) potentially modeled, by classification system
CICES v 4.3 - Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (Section > Division > Group > Class)
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(Environmental Subclass > Ecological End-Product (EEP) > EEP Subclass > EEP Modifier)
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EM Variable Names (and Units)
Predictor
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Intermediate
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Intermediate (Computed) Variables (and Units)
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* |
Response
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Observed Response Variables (and Units)
view details (4 variables)
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Computed Response Variables (and Units)
view details (10 variables)
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