Hysteresis in suspended sediment to turbidity relations due to changing particle size distributions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 5487-5500

  Landers, Mark N ^a   Sturm, Terry W ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

particle size distribution; sediment transport; sedimentation; streamflow; turbidity

Indexed keywords

HYSTERESIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SILT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STORMS; STREAM FLOW; TURBIDITY;

MEASUREMENTS OF; POTENTIAL CHANGE; SEDIMENT PROPERTIES; SEDIMENT SIZE; SEDIMENT SOURCES; SEDIMENT TURBIDITY; SIZE FRACTION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

DISCHARGE; HILLSLOPE; HYSTERESIS; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STORM SURGE; STREAMFLOW; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TIME SERIES; TURBIDITY;

ATLANTA; GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883512258     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20394     Document Type: Article

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