Estimating sediment transport from acoustic measurements in the Venice Lagoon inlets

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 883-893

  Defendi, V ^a   Kovacevic V ^b   Arena, F ^b   Zaggia, L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic backscatter; Acoustic Doppler current profilers; Suspended sediment transport; Venice lagoon

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; BACKSCATTER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAGOONAL SEDIMENTATION; METEOROLOGY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED LOAD; TIME SERIES; WATER COLUMN;

ITALY; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO]; VENICE LAGOON;

EID: 77951297491     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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