Report of the sub-committee on the environment and health, Danish Environmental Protection Agency

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Table 8.1
Methods of ranking the potential of pesticides for leaching to groundwater. The methods are listed in order of increasing complexity and data requirements. The table also shows the types of parameters used in the methods.

Method	Dose	Degradation	Adsorption in soil	Soil parameters	Water transport	Spatial variation in the soil	Climate
GUS index		x	x
Hasse diagram	x	(x)	x
AF index		x	x	x	x
Dutch point system	x	(x)	x	x	x
Yardstick method	(x)	x	x	x	x
Fuzzy expert model	x	x	x	(x)	(x)	(x)	(x)
Expert assessment	x	x	x	x	(x)	(x)	(x)
Deterministic models	x	x	x	x	x	x	(x)
Stochastic models	x	x	x	x	x	x	x