Using velocimeter signal to noise ratio as a surrogate measure of suspended mud concentration

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1020-1032

  Salehi, Mehrdad ^a   Strom, Kyle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic Doppler velocimeter; Mud; Suspended sediment concentration

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; CALIBRATION; KINETIC ENERGY; LINEARITY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MUD; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TIME SERIES; TURBULENCE;

EID: 79955711106     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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