Laboratory validation of acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) techniques for suspended sediment investigations

Flow Measurement and Instrumentation

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 40-48

  Guerrero, M ^a   Ruther N ^b   Szupiany, R N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

ADCP; Laboratory validation; Multi frequency backscatter; Suspended sediment

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC BACKSCATTERING; ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ADCP; AIR BUBBLES; ARGENTINA; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; EXPERIMENTAL STRATEGY; GRAIN SIZE; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; LABORATORY TEST; MULTI FREQUENCY; NON-INTRUSIVE MEASUREMENTS; RIVER ENGINEERING; RIVER SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENT GRAIN SIZE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS; WATER COLUMNS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DOPPLER EFFECT; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LABORATORIES; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

EID: 84856786656     PISSN: 09555986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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