North Carolina State University Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering

Publications

 


Refereed Articles

(Graduate student*)

  1. Gilmore*, T.G., F. Birgand and K. Chapman. 2013. Source and magnitude of error in an inexpensive image-based water level measurement system. J. Hydrol. 496: 178–186. DOI 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.05.011 (pdf)
  2. Etheridge*, J.R., A. Lepistö, K. Granlund, K. Rankinen, F. Birgand and M.R. Burchell II. 2013. Reducing uncertainty in the calibration and validation of the INCA-N model by using soft data. Accepted in Hydrology Research
  3. Brown, R.A., F. Birgand and W.F. Hunt III. 2013. Analysis of Consecutive Events for Field Monitored Bioretention Cells. Water, Air & Soil Pollution 224(6): 1581. DOI 10.1007/s11270-013-1581-6 (pdf)
  4. Billy*, C., F. Birgand, P. Ansart, J. Peschard, M. Sebilo and Julien Tournebize. 2013. Factors controlling nitrate concentrations in surface waters of an artificially drained agricultural watershed Landscape Ecol. Online DOI 10.1007/s10980-013-9872-2 (pdf)
  5. Moatar, F., M. Meybeck, S. Raymond, F. Birgand and F. Curie. 2012. River flux uncertainties predicted by hydrological variability and riverine material behaviour Hydrol. Proc. Online DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9464. (pdf)
  6. Birgand F., T.W. Appelboom, G.M. Chescheir and R.W. Skaggs. 2011. Estimating nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon fluxes in forested and mixed-use watersheds of the lower coastal plain of North Carolina: uncertainties associated with infrequent sampling. Trans. ASABE. 54(6): 2099-2110. (pdf)
  7. Billy* C., F. Birgand, M. Sebilo, G. Billen, J. Tournebize and C. Kao. 2011 . Nitrate dynamics in artificially drained nested watersheds. J. Phys. Chem. Earth. 36(12):506-504. doi: 10.1016/j.pce.2008.09.007. (pdf)
  8. Birgand F., C. Faucheux*, G. Gruau, F. Moatar and M. Meybeck. 2011. Uncertainties in assessing annual nitrate loads and concentration indicators: Part 2. Deriving sampling frequency charts in Brittany, France. Trans. ASABE. 54(1): 93-104. (pdf)
  9. Appelboom, T.W., G.M. Chescheir, F. Birgand, R.W. Skaggs, J.W. Gilliam and D.M. Amatya. 2010. Temperature coefficient for modeling denitrification in surface water sediments using the mass transfer coefficient. Trans. ASABE. 53(2): 465-474. (pdf)
  10. Birgand F., C. Faucheux*, G. Gruau, B. Augeard, F. Moatar and P. Bordenave. 2010. Uncertainties in assessing annual nitrate loads and concentration indicators: Part 1. Impact of sampling frequency and load estimation algorithms. Trans. ASABE. 53(2): 437-446. (pdf)
  11. Billy* C., G. Billen, M. Sebilo, F. Birgand and J. Tournebize. 2010. Nitrogen isotopic composition of leached nitrate and soil organic matter as an indicator of denitrification in a sloping drained agricultural plot and adjacent uncultivated riparian buffer strips. Soil Biol. Biochem. 42(1): 108-117. (pdf)
  12. Henine, H., Y. Nedelec, B. Augeard, F. Birgand, C. Kao, C. Chaumont and P. Ribstein. 2010. Effect of pipe pressurization on the discharge of tile drainage system. Vadose Zone Journal 9(1): 36-42. (pdf)
  13. Moatar, F., F. Birgand, M. Meybeck, C. Faucheux* and S. Raymond. 2009. Uncertainties on river water quality metrics assessment (nutrients, concentration quantiles and fluxes) based on discrete surveys (in French). La Houille Blanche. No.3 (June 2009): 68-76. (pdf)
  14. Augeard B., Y. Nédélec, F. Birgand, C. Chaumont, P. Ansart & C. Kao. 2008. Effect of a nonlinear runoff response on flood statistical properties: the case of a tile-drained watershed, IAHS Publ. 321, ISBN 978-1-901502-59-6
  15. Birgand, F., R. W. Skaggs, G. M. Chescheir and J. W. Gilliam. 2007. Nitrogen removal in streams of agricultural catchments – a literature review. Crit. Rev. Environ. Sci. Tech. 37(5): 381-487. (pdf)
  16. Turlan*, T., F. Birgand, and P. Marmonier, 2007. Comparative use of field and Laboratory mesocosms for in-stream nitrate uptake measurement. Int. J. Limnol. 43(1): 41-51. (pdf)
  17. P. Peu, F. Birgand and J. Martinez. 2007. Long term fate of slurry derived nitrogen in soil: a case study with a macro-lysimeter experiment having received high loads of pig slurry (Solepur). Bioresource Tech. 98: 3228–3234. (pdf)
  18. Turpin, N., Bontems, P., Rotillon, G., Barlund, I., Kaljonen, M., Tattari, S., Feichtinger, F., Strauss, P., Haverkamp, R., Garnier, M., Lo Porto, A., Benigni, G., Leone, A., Ripa, MN., Eklo, OM., Romstad, E., Bioteau, T., Birgand, F., Bordenave, P., Laplana, R., Lescot, JM., Piet, L., Zahm, F. 2005. AgriBMPWater: systems approach to environmentally acceptable farming. Environ. Model. Soft. 20 (2): 187-196. ( pdf)
  19. Kenny* C., Yamulki S., Blackwell M., Maltby E., French P. and Birgand F. 2004. The release of nitrous oxide from the intertidal zones of two European estuaries in response to increased ammonium and nitrate loading. Wat., Air Soil Poll.: Focus 4: 61-66. ( pdf)