Measuring instruments for estuaries
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Instruments for estuaries
The available instruments (and accuracies involved) for measuring:
- bed load transport,
- suspended sediment concentrations and transport rates,
- particle sizes and fall velocities,
are presented in Tables 1, 2 and 3; order of preference is based on the overall sampling accuracy. Simple mechanical instruments such as the bottle-type and the trap-type samplers are not attractive because of the very short sampling times involved. Accuracy cannot be improved by increasing number of samples due to time-variation of sediment concentrations within the tidal cycle.
Point-samples should be taken over the entire water column in strong tidal flows as the sediments will be mixed over the water column by turbulent eddies. Data sampling can be confined to the bottom region in weak tidal flows. Flocculation often is a dominant process in muddy estuaries. The LISST-ST which is an in-situ Laser diffraction instrument in combination with a settling tube offers a powerful solution to measure particle sizes, concentrations and densities of the individual particles as well as the flocculated aggregates (low concentrations <150 mg/l) in on-line mode. This instrument (LISST-ST) is not yet suitable for long-term, stand-alone measurements due to insufficient robustness, relatively low concentration range (<150 mg/l) and biological fouling problems.
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See also
Other contributions of Leo van Rijn
articles with parts of the manual
- INTRODUCTION, PROBLEMS AND APPROACHES IN SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS
- DEFINITIONS, PROCESSES AND MODELS IN MORPHOLOGY
- PRINCIPLES, STATISTICS AND ERRORS OF MEASURING SEDIMENT TRANSPORT
- COMPUTATION OF SEDIMENT TRANSPORT AND PRESENTATION OF RESULTS
- MEASURING INSTRUMENTS FOR SEDIMENT TRANSPORT
- MEASURING INSTRUMENTS FOR PARTICLE SIZE AND FALL VELOCITY
- MEASURING INSTRUMENTS FOR BED MATERIAL SAMPLING
- LABORATORY AND IN-SITU ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES
- IN-SITU MEASUREMENT OF WET BULK DENSITY
- INSTRUMENTS FOR BED LEVEL DETECTION
- ARGUS VIDEO
- MEASURING INSTRUMENTS FOR FLUID VELOCITY, PRESSURE AND WAVE HEIGHT
other articles
- Instrument Characteristics of Point-Integrating Suspended Load Samplers
- Guidelines for Selection of Sediment Transport Samplers
- Instruments for rivers
- Instruments for estuaries
- Instruments for coasts
- bed load transport
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