ZIN-AgriTra

(A model for the environmental fate of Agricultural contaminants and Transformation products in agricultural catchments).

The model ZIN-AgriTra was developed to simulate the distribution of agrochemicals (nutrients, pesticides) and their environmental fate in hydrological catchments. It was applied to simulate the river export of phosphorus (Gassmann et al., 2014) and to estimate the export processes of herbicides and their transformation products at catchment scale (Gassmann et al., 2013).

A manual is published as part of the dissertation of Matthias Gassmann and can be downloaded on the right.

If you are interested in the application of the model for research or consulting, please contact Matthias Gassmann.

Spill, C., Gassmann, M., 2025. High Resolution Simulation of Nitrate and Ammonium From Point and Diffuse Sources in a Small Headwater Catchment. Hydrological Processes 39 (2). DOI: 10.1002/hyp.70081.

Nagesh, P., Gassmann, M., Eitzinger, J., Boer, H. J. de, Edelenbosch, O. Y., van Vuuren, D. P., Dekker, S. C., 2024. Modeling the impacts of climate change on agrochemical fate and transport by water on a catchment scale. Heliyon 10 (15), e35669. DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e35669.

Schwenkel, J., 2023. metrological investigation and ecohydrological modeling of the reactive transport of pesticides using the example of a small water body. Dissertation at the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Braunschweig. https://doi.org/10.24355/dbbs.084-202311271012-0

Vollert, D., Gaßmann, M., Lange, J., Kümmerer, K., Olsson, O., 2018. Simulating the fate and release of metazachlor and its transformation products metazachlor oxalic acid and sulfonic acid in a small-scale agricultural catchment, in: European Geosciences Union (ed.), Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 20, EGU2018. Copernicus, Göttingen, p. Abstract ID: 19569.

Vollert, D., Gaßmann, M., Kümmerer, K., Olsson, O., 2017. Simulation of the environmental fate of the fungicide Penconazole and its transformation products in a vineyard-terraces catchment, in: Conference on Chemistry and the Environment (ed.), 16th International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment in 2017: Abstracts - Oslo, Norway, June 18-22, 2017. Conference, Oslo, p. Abstract ID: 336.

Stegen, R., Gaßmann, M., 2017. Re-design of a physically-based catchmen scale agrochemical model for the simulation of parameter spaces and flexible transformation schemes, in: European Geosciences Union (ed.), Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 19, EGU2017. Copernicus, Göttingen, p. Abstract ID: 7836.

Gassmann, M., Farlin, J., Gallé, T., 2017. Spatially distributed environmental fate modeling of terbuthylazine in a mesoscale agricultural catchment using passive sampler data, in: European Geosciences Union (ed.), Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 19, EGU2017. Copernicus, Göttingen, p. Abstract ID: 16070.

Vollert, D., Gassmann, M., Olsson, O., Kümmerer, K., 2017. Simulation of the fate of Boscalid and its transformation product 4-Chlorobenzoic acid in a vineyard-terraces catchment, in: European Geosciences Union (ed.), Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 19, EGU2017. Copernicus, Göttingen, p. Abstract ID: 15167.

Gassmann, M., Olsson, O., Stamm, C., Weiler, M., Kümmerer, K., 2015. Physico-chemical characteristics affect the spatial distribution of pesticide and transformation product loss to an agricultural brook. Science of the Total Environment 532 , 733-743. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.06.068.

Gassmann, M., Brito, D., Olsson, O., 2014. Estimation of phosphorus export from a Mediterranean agricultural catchment with scarce data. Hydrological Sciences Journal 59 (1), 221-233. DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2013.798661.

Gassmann, M., Stamm, C., Olsson, O., Lange, J., Kümmerer, K., Weiler, M., 2013. Model-based estimation of pesticides and transformation products and their export pathways in a headwater catchment. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 17 (12), 5213-5228. DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-5213-2013.

Gassmann, M., 2013 Environmental fate modeling of agrochemicals and their transformation products at catchment scale. PhD thesis at the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg i. Br.