<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">An important method of investigating N2O emissions from cropland is model simulation. The measured data of N2O emissions under conventional tillage (CT) and reduced tillage (RT) with (N1) and without (N0) N fertilizer application were used to test the DNDC model during the year 2012 (April-December) in Slovakia. There was found a good agreement with seasonal N2O emissions only for CTN0 treatment, but in case of other treatments DNDC overestimated the emissions. The relative deviation between observed and simulated total seasonal N2O emissions (kg N ha−1) from four treatments were 46%, 164%, 346% and 321% for CTN0, CTN1, RTN0 and RTN1, respectively. Also, some discrepancies were found between observed and simulated emissions when evaluating the daily N2O emissions, especially when looking at the magnitude of N2O emissions peaks. The correlation between observed and simulated daily N2O emissions (N = 38) in case of conventional tillage was quite high and significant with <italic>r</italic> = 0.48 (<italic>P</italic> &lt;0.01), <italic>r</italic> = 0.45 (<italic>P</italic> &lt;0.01) for CTN0 and CTN1 treatment, respectively. On the other hand, there was found poor correlation in reduced tillage treatment with <italic>r</italic> = 0.22 (<italic>P</italic> >0.01) and <italic>r</italic> = 0.39 (<italic>P</italic> >0.01), for RTN0, RTN1, respectively.</abstract>

An important method of investigating N2O emissions from cropland is model simulation. The measured data of N2O emissions under conventional tillage (CT) and reduced tillage (RT) with (N1) and without (N0) N fertilizer application were used to test the DNDC model during the year 2012 (April-December) in Slovakia. There was found a good agreement with seasonal N2O emissions only for CTN0 treatment, but in case of other treatments DNDC overestimated the emissions. The relative deviation between observed and simulated total seasonal N2O emissions (kg N ha−1) from four treatments were 46%, 164%, 346% and 321% for CTN0, CTN1, RTN0 and RTN1, respectively. Also, some discrepancies were found between observed and simulated emissions when evaluating the daily N2O emissions, especially when looking at the magnitude of N2O emissions peaks. The correlation between observed and simulated daily N2O emissions (N = 38) in case of conventional tillage was quite high and significant with r = 0.48 (P <0.01), r = 0.45 (P <0.01) for CTN0 and CTN1 treatment, respectively. On the other hand, there was found poor correlation in reduced tillage treatment with r = 0.22 (P >0.01) and r = 0.39 (P >0.01), for RTN0, RTN1, respectively.

Measured and Modeled (DNDC) Nitrous Oxide Emissions (N2O) under Different Crop Management Practices in the Nitra Region, Slovakia

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Measured and Modeled (DNDC) Nitrous Oxide Emissions (NO) under Different Crop Management Practices in the Nitra Region, Slovakia

An important method of investigating N2O emissions from cropland is model simulation. The measured data of N2O emissions under conventional tillage (CT) and reduced tillage (RT) with (N1) and without (N0) N fertilizer application were used to test the DNDC model during the year 2012 (April-December) in Slovakia. There was found a good agreement with seasonal N2O emissions only for CTN0 treatment, but in case of other treatments DNDC overestimated the emissions. The relative deviation between observed and simulated total seasonal N2O emissions (kg N ha−1) from four treatments were 46%, 164%, 346% and 321% for CTN0, CTN1, RTN0 and RTN1, respectively. Also, some discrepancies were found between observed and simulated emissions when evaluating the daily N2O emissions, especially when looking at the magnitude of N2O emissions peaks. The correlation between observed and simulated daily N2O emissions (N = 38) in case of conventional tillage was quite high and significant with r = 0.48 (P 0.01) and r = 0.39 (P >0.01), for RTN0, RTN1, respectively.

An important method of investigating N2O emissions from cropland is model simulation. The measured data of N2O emissions under conventional tillage (CT) and...

Measured and Modeled (DNDC) Nitrous Oxide Emissions (N₂O) under Different Crop Management Practices in the Nitra Region, Slovakia

Published Online: Dec 08, 2016

Page range: 54 - 57

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ahr-2016-0012

Keywords
soil NO emission, DNDC model, testing, cropland

© 2016 Ján Horák et al., published by De Gruyter Open

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Measured and Modeled (DNDC) Nitrous Oxide Emissions (N2O) under Different Crop Management Practices in the Nitra Region, Slovakia

Published Online: Dec 08, 2016

Page range: 54 - 57

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ahr-2016-0012

Keywordssoil NO emission, DNDC model, testing, cropland

© 2016 Ján Horák et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Measured and Modeled (DNDC) Nitrous Oxide Emissions (N₂O) under Different Crop Management Practices in the Nitra Region, Slovakia

Keywords
soil NO emission, DNDC model, testing, cropland