Estimation of suspended sediment concentration in rivers using acoustic methods

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 159, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 255-265

  Elçi, Şebnem ^a   Aydın, Ramazan ^a   Work, Paul A ^b  

^a IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic Doppler; Aegean; Multivariate analysis; Particle size; Streams and rivers; Suspended sediment concentration

Indexed keywords

FLOW VELOCITY; FLOWMETERS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY; WATERWORKS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER; ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT; AEGEAN; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CHARACTERISTIC; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

RAIN;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ACOUSTIC METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TURBIDITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT METER; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW RATE; INSTRUMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; RIVER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOIL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREAM (RIVER); TEMPERATURE; TURBIDITY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VELOCITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 70450273509     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0627-5     Document Type: Article

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