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Nutrient Load Data used to Quantify Regional Effects of Agricultural Best Management Practices: An application of the 2012 SPARROW models for the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast United States

Nitrogen and phosphorus losses from agricultural areas have impacted the water quality of downstream rivers, lakes, and oceans. As a result, investment in the adoption of agricultural best management practices (BMPs) has grown but assessments of their effectiveness at large spatial scales have been sparse. This study applies regional Spatially Referenced Regression On Watershed-attributes (SPARROW) models developed for the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast regions of the United States to quantify regional effects of BMPs on nutrient losses from agricultural lands. These models were used because they account for specific BMPs in the prediction of instream nutrient loads. This data release accompanies the journal article "Quantifying regional effects of best management practices on nutrient losses from agricultural lands" (https:// doi:10.5066/pending), and it contains the input and output data for the modeling scenarios that were evaluated relative to the 2012 regional SPARROW models.

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Author(s) Victor L Roland orcid, Ana M. Garcia orcid, David A Saad orcid, Scott W Ator orcid, Dale M Robertson orcid, Gregory E Schwarz orcid
Publication Date 2021-10-04
Beginning Date of Data 1999-10-01
Ending Date of Data 2014-09-30
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9H2NDWU
Citation Roland, V.L., Garcia, A.M., Saad, D.A., Ator, S.W., Robertson, D.M., and Schwarz, G.E., 2021, Nutrient Load Data used to Quantify Regional Effects of Agricultural Best Management Practices: An application of the 2012 SPARROW models for the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast United States: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9H2NDWU.
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