Technological advances in suspended-sediment surrogate monitoring

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Gray, John R ^a   Gartner, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; COSTS; DIFFRACTION; FOULING; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW; TURBIDIMETERS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER PROFILERS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; LASER DIFFRACTION INSTRUMENTS; MULTIFREQUENCY ARRAYS; PRESSURE DIFFERENTIAL; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; VOLUMETRIC CONCENTRATIONS;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BACKSCATTER; BIOFOULING; INSTRUMENTATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SAMPLING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURROGATE METHOD; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TURBIDITY; VOLUME;

EID: 79551697655     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007063     Document Type: Article

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