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Vegetative Filter Strip Modeling System

Citings of VFSMOD in journal articles, on the Web, and in user applications

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  • Refereed journal articles about VFSMOD or citing VFSMOD use:
    • Simplified modeling of phosphorus removal by vegetative filters strips to control runoff pollution from phosphate mining areas. 2009. Kuo, Y.-M. and R. Muñoz-Carpena. 2009. J. OF HYDROLOGY 378:343–354. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.09.039
    • Comment on “Major Factors Influencing the Efficacy of Vegetated Buffers on Sediment Trapping: A Review and Analysis”. G.A. Fox and G.J. Sabbagh. 2009. J. ENVIRON. QUAL. 38(1):1-3. DOI: 10.2134/jeq2009.0001le
    • Methods to prioritize placement of riparian buffers for improved water quality. 2009. Tomer, M.D., M.G. Dosskey, M.R. Burkart, D.E. James, M.J. Helmers and D.E. Eisenhauer. 2009. AGROFOREST SYST. 75(1):17–25. DOI 10.1007/s10457-008-9134-5
    • Development of a simplistic vegetative filter strip model for sediment and nutrient retention at the field scale. 2009. White, M.J. and J.G. Arnold. HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES (in press). DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7291
    • Chlorpyrifos and Atrazine Removal from Runoff by Vegetated Filter Strips: Experiments and Predictive Modeling. 2009. Poletika, N.N., P.N. Coody, G.A. Fox, G.J. Sabbagh, S.C. Dolder, and J. White. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 38(3): 1042-1052 [html].
    • Effectiveness of Vegetative Filter Strips in Reducing Pesticide Loading: Quantifying Pesticide Trapping Efficiency. 2009. Sabbagh, G.J., G.A. Fox, A. Kamanzi, B. Roepke and J.-Z.Tang. J. ENV. QUALITY38(2):762-771 [html].
    • A Design Aid for Determining Width of Filter Strips. 2008. M.G. Dosskey, M.J. Helmers, and D.E. Eisenhauer. JOURNAL OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION 63(4):232-241.
    • Evaluation of water quality models through global sensitivity and uncertainty analyses techniques: application to the vegetative filter strip model VFSMOD-W. 2007. Muñoz-Carpena, R., Z. Zajac and Yi-Ming Kuo. TRANS. OF ASABE 50(5):1719-1732.
    • An approach for using soil surveys to guide the placement of water quality buffers. 2006. M.G. Dosskey, M.J. Helmers, and D.E. Eisenhauer. J. of SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION 61(6):344-354. [html]
    • Uncertainty in TMDL models. 2006. Shirmohammadi, A., I. Chaubey, R.D. Harmel, D.D. Bosch, R. Muñoz-Carpena, C. Dharmasri, A. Sexton, M. Arabi, M.L. Wolfe, J. Frankenberger, C. Graff and T.M. Sohrabi. TRANS. OF ASABE 49(4):1033-1049.
    • Establishing conservation buffers using precision information. 2005. M.G. Dosskey, D.E. Eisenhauer, and M.J. Helmers. JOURNAL OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION, 60(6):349-354.
    • Suspended sediment removal by vegetative filter strip treating highway runoff. 2005. J. Han, S. Wu and C. Allan. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH. 40:1637-1649.
    • Modeling sediment trapping in a vegetative filter accounting for converging overland flow. 2005. M.J. Helmers, D.E. Eisenhauer, T.G. Franti, M.G. Dosskey. TRANS. OF THE ASABE Vol. 48(2): 541−555.
    • Flow pathways and sediment trapping in a field-scale vegetative filter. 2005. M. J. Helmers, D. E. Eisenhauer, M. G. Dosskey, T. G. Franti, J. M. Brothers, M. C. McCullough. TRANS. OF THE ASABE Vol. 48(3): 955−968.
    • A design procedure for vegetative filter strips using VFSMOD-W. 2004. Muñoz-Carpena, R, Parsons, JE. TRANS. OF THE ASAE: vol 47(6):1933-1941.
    • Cost-effective Targeting of Riparian Buffers. 2004. Yang, W. and A. Weersink. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 52(1):17–34. [html]
    • Assessment of concentrated flow through riparian buffers . 2002. Dosskey, MG, Helmers, MJ, Eisenhauer, DE, Franti, TG, Hoagland, KD. JOURNAL OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION. vol 57(6):336-343.
    • Effectiveness of vegetation barriers for marly sediment trapping. 2004. Rey, F. EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS. vol(29):1161-1169.
    • Factors affecting sediment trapping in vegetated filter strips: simulation study using VFSMOD. 2001. Abu-Zreig, M. HYDROLOGIC PROCESSES: vol 15(8):1477-1488.
    • Validation of a vegetated filter strip model (VFSMOD). 2001. Abu-Zreig, M, Rudra, RP, Whitely, HR. HYDROLOGIC PROCESSES: vol 15(5):729-742.
    • Modeling overland flow and sediment transport in vegetative filter strips: model development and application. 1999. Muñoz-Carpena, R., J. E. Parsons, and J. W. Gilliam. 1999. JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY. 214(1-4):111-129.
    • Numerical approach to the overland flow process in vegetative filter strips. 1993. Muñoz-Carpena, R., J. E. Parsons, and J. W. Gilliam. 1993. TRANS. OF ASAE. 36(3):761-770.
    • A quadratic Petrov-Galerkin solution for kinematic wave overland flow. 1993. Muñoz-Carpena, R., C. T. Miller, and J. E. Parsons. WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH. 29(8):2615-262
  • Proceedings
    • 2009 Conference on "Pesticide Behaviour in Soils, Water and Air" conference. Sept. 14-16, 2009, York, UK- Modelling runoff mitigation capability of vegetated filter strips (pdf)
    • 2009 Conference on "Pesticide Behaviour in Soils, Water and Air" conference. Sept. 14-16, 2009, York, UK- Comparison of Models for Estimating the Efficiency of Vegetative Buffer Strips (pdf)
    • 2008 ASABE Paper - Enhancement and Evaluation of SWAT Filter Strip Module reflecting Field Runoff Volume and Filter Strip Width (based on VFSMOD) (pdf)
    • 2008 ASABE Paper - Development of Web GIS based VFSMOD System to Simulate Sediment Reduction Efficiency with Vegetative Filter Strip (pdf)
    • 2007 ASABE paper - An Inverse Calibrator For VFSMOD-W Using The Global Multilevel Coordinate Search/ Nelder-Mead Simplex Algorithm (pdf)
    • 2005 ASABE paper - Modeling Water and Sediment Trapping by Vegetated Filters Using VFSMOD: Comparing Methods for Estimating Infiltration Parameters (pdf)
    • 2004 ASABE Paper - Evaluation of Green-Ampt parameters for riparian buffers (pdf)
    • 2003. Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Soil Erosion and Sediment Redistribution on River Catchments, Silsoe UK (pg. 31)- Effectiveness of grass buffer strips in reducing surface runoff and sediment yield –field measurements and simulation results (EUROSEM,OPUS and VFSmod) (pdf), by K Schmelmer (Institut für Bodenkunde, Universitat Bonn, Germany).
    • 2002 TMDL Papers -
      • Paper 1 - VFSMOD-W a graphical Windows system for the evaluation and design of vegetative filter strips for sediment trapping
      • Paper 2 - A normalized design procedure to meet sediment TMDL with vegetative filter strips
    • 2001 Conference on Environmental Research, Kansas State University- Modeling Transport of Cryptosporidium Parvum Oocysts in Overland Flow (pdf)
    • 2001 ASAE Paper - Impact of Uncertainty on the Design of Vegetative Filter Strips (html)
    • 1999 ASAE Paper - Using VFSMOD for Developing Design Guides for Vegetative Filter Strips (html)
  • Handbooks, reports and manuals
    • VFSMOD is listed in Ch. 11-Analysis of Management Practices (pg. 11-16) of the US-EPA's "Handbook for Developing Watershed Plans to Restore and Protect Our WatersContents" (March 2008) (pdf).
    • Final Report on the Evaluation and Implementation of BMPs for North Carolina DOT’s Highway and Industrial Facilities (Wu and Allan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2006) found good comparison of highway runoff data with VFSMOD results. The model was used to assess the importance of soil, sediment and vegetation parameters to remove pollutants in roadways [PDF]
    • VFSMOD is discussed in the Chapter on Buffer strips by M.J. Helmers et al. in the "Gulf Hypoxia and local water quality concerns" workshop to assess nutrient losses to water resources in the Corn Belt. Iowa State University, Sept. 26-28, 2005 (pdf).
    • VFSMOD is used to obtain functional relationships for buffer design for the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Division of Soil and Water Conservation. Green technology: The Delaware urban runoff management approach a technical manual for designing nonstructural bmps to minimize stormwater impacts from land development. January 2004. Report by W.C. Lucas [pdf].
    • A linkage of VFSMOD with SWAT is proposed as part of the "Great Lakes Tributary Modeling Program: Status Report", U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes & Ohio River Division Cincinnati, Ohio (pdf)
    • Bentrup, G.,M. Schoeneberger, M. Dosskey, and G. Wells (2004) of the USDA National Agroforestry Center, Lincoln, Nebraska, present a nomograph to estimate pollutant reduction based on VFSMOD simulations in "Conservation Buffers: Planning and Design Principles" [html]
    • The New Jersey Stormwater Best Management Practices Manual, in its Chapter 9.10 "Standard for Vegetative Filters" contains VFSMOD-based nomographs for design of VFS that incorporate vegetation type, slope and length based on accepted sediment (TSS) removal for different vegetation classes. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Watershed Management, Trenton, NJ [PDF][html]
    • USDA-ARS is using VFSMOD-W in the Optimization of Buffer-Grass Criteria As Part of National P-Index Evaluation (web page)
    • Project using VFSMOD for education on the effectiveness of vegetative filter strips in Iowa (pdf)
    • VFSMOD was used in a project to evaluate performance of vegetative filters to remove highway pollutants (pdf)
    • US-EPA lists VFSMOD as a model that can be used in determing vegetative filter lengths (pdf) (In Chapter 6 of National Management Measures to Protect and Restore Wetlands and Riparian Areas for the Abatement of Nonpoint Source Pollution)
    • Reference to VFSMOD in US-EPA report " Evaluation of Sediment Transport Models and Comparative Application of Two Watershed Models" (pdf)
    • Cited as a model for use in sizing VFS by USGS Report (pdf)
    • VFSMOD is used as a basis for testing and evaluating their field project at U. of Guelph (pdf)
    • VFSMOD is used as the base model for U. of Guelph's phosphorus modeling effort (see pdf & pdf for details)
  • Web tools
    • Web GIS (Google Earth) based VFSMOD, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon, Republic of Korea [html]
     
  • Dissertations and thesis
    • K.M. Foster, 2008. The role of the residential shoreland lawn as a hydrologic connection between downspout and lake. Stevens Point, WI.: University of Wisconsin, She presents field observations to calibrate VFSMOD and evaluate its usefulness in a residential setting. It concludes that although intended to model runoff and sediment reduction from an agricultural field draining to a buffer strip, VFSMOD functioned well as a tool for residential runoff predictions [PDF]
    • Kuo, Y.-M. 2007. Vegetative filter strips to reduce surface runoff phosphorus transport from mining sand tailings in the upper Peace River basin of Central Florida. Ph.D. Dissertation. Gainesville, FL.: University of Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0021212/kuo_y.pdf
     
  • Training and other efforts
    • European Union's 2008 AIM (Advancing Intelligent Mitigation) workshop in Brussels (see agenda here), where the new pesticide component was presented by Garey Fox (Oklahoma State University) as a tool to inform activities in support of the new EU's Pesticide Directive [PDF].
    • VFSMOD-W Workshop, Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas (UNACH), México. November 3-4, 2008 [Program, PDF]
    • VFSMOD-W Training Workshop at the Universidad Politéctica de Madrid, ETSI Agrónomos (Spain). July 2-6, 2007 [Program, PDF]

 

 

last update 11/10/2009 ; created 7/30/2005
Questions or Comments... Rafael Muñoz-Carpena