Increasing regulatory conservatism in Tier I modelling for groundwater in Europe is forcing registrants to examine monitoring as a means of demonstrating compliance of hazard based regulatory concentration limits.  Modelling is a key part in the design of such studies, from problem definition to placing final results in context of European agriculture.  We show that different active ingredients, application patterns and regulatory requirements result in a different design of monitoring study.  With reference to a several different monitoring programs in Europe, we show how modelling, from the field to the continental scale, is required to support both site selection and contextualization of monitoring data.  The agri-climatic, soil and cropping data available to modellers in Europe is, in general, much less detailed than that available in USA and we show how this affects what can be achieved with modelling approaches.

Modelling in support of large-scale monitoring programs in the EU

248th National Meeting (2014)

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