Temporal variability of suspended sediment sources in an alpine catchment combining river/rainfall monitoring and sediment fingerprinting

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 828-846

  Navratil, Oldrich ^a   Evrard, Olivier ^b   Esteves, Michel ^a   Legout, Cédric ^a   Ayrault, Sophie ^b   Némery, Julien ^a   Mate Marin, Ainhoa ^a   Ahmadi, Mehdi ^b   Lefèvre, Irène ^b   Poirel, Alain ^c   Bonté, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c EDF R AND D   (France)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Radar imagery; Radionuclide; River gauging; Suspended sediment fingerprinting; Wash load

Indexed keywords

ALPINE CATCHMENTS; BLACK MARLS; CONVECTIVE STORMS; FINE SEDIMENTS; FLOOD EVENT; FRENCH ALPS; LITHOLOGIC COMPOSITIONS; LONG DURATION; LOW-INTENSITY; PEAK DISCHARGE; QUATERNARY DEPOSITS; RADAR IMAGERY; RADIONUCLIDE CONCENTRATION; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL EVENT; RAINFALL REGIME; RIVER CATCHMENT; RIVER GAUGING; RIVERBED SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENT FINGERPRINTING; SEDIMENT MONITORING; SEDIMENT SAMPLING; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SHORT DURATIONS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SUBCATCHMENTS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT SOURCES; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; WASH LOAD;

FLOODS; GEOCHEMISTRY; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOISOTOPES; RAIN; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STORMS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; TRACKING RADAR;

CATCHMENTS;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CATCHMENT; GEOCHEMISTRY; PEAK DISCHARGE; RADAR IMAGERY; RADIONUCLIDE; RAINFALL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ALPS; FRANCE;

EID: 84862659357     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3201     Document Type: Article

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