Tier 1 Rice Model for Estimating Pesticide Concentrations in Ric...

Courtesy Recent Science Inventory records from the EPA  Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:07

The Tier 1 Rice Model estimates screening level aquatic concentrations of pesticides in rice paddies. It is a simple pesticide soil:water partitioning model with default values for water volume, soil mass, and organic carbon.

Pesticide degradation is not considered in the model.


 

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