Author : Jim Bogen
Release : 1992
Genre : Erosion
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Erosion and Sediment Transport Monitoring Programmes in River Basins by : Jim Bogen

Download or read book Erosion and Sediment Transport Monitoring Programmes in River Basins written by Jim Bogen. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development of measurement techniques; Suspended load and bed load transport in mountain streams determined by different methods; Bed sediment characterization in river engineering problems; Direct measurement of in-channel abrasion processes; Measuring changes in micro and macro roughness on mobile gravel beds; Using COSSY (CObble Satellite SYstem) for measuring the effects of lift and drag forces; The impact of particle size controls on stream turbidity measurements: some implications for suspended sediment yield estimation; Application of sandwave measurements in calculating bel load discharge; Turbidimeter measurementsin a tropical river, Costa Rica; Recording bedload discharge in a semiarid channel, Nahal Yatir, Israel; Determining event bedload volumes for evaluation of potential degradation sites due to gravel extraction, N.S.W., Australia Jonathan; River bank erosion events on the Upper Severn detected by the photoelectronic erosion pin (PEEP) system; A study of field methods for measuring sediment discharge; Quantification of soil detachment by raindrop impact: performance of classical formulae of kinetic energy in Mediterranean storms; Tracing the source of recent sediment using environmental magnetism and radionuclidesin the karst of the Jenolan Caves, Australia; A new acoustic sensor for sediment dishcarge measurement; The use Of caesium-137 measurements in soil erosion surveys; Use of radiometric fingerprints to derive information on suspended sediment sources; Separate in-situ entrapment of sand and silt in river systems; Measuring techniques of bed load in de Yangtze River; Sampling strategies; Monitoring grain size of suspended sediments in rivers; Reliability and representativeness of a suspended sediment concentration monitoring programme for a remote alpine proglacial river; Monitoring sediment load from erosion events; The use of automatically collected point samples to estimate suspended sediment and associated trace element concentrations for determining annual mass transport; Calculating the suspended sediment load of the Dez River; Towards the design of a strategy for sampling suspended sediments in small headwater catchments; Temporal variability of suspended sediment flux from a subarctic glacial river, southern Iceland; Stream suspended sediment transport monitoring - why, how and what is being measured? Critical reflections on long term sediment monitoring programmes demonstrated on the Australian Danube; A sampling strategy for an investigation on particle associated contaminants; Monitoring of suspended sediment concentration in discharge from regulated lakes in glacial deposits; Some sampling considerations in the design of effective strategies for monitoring sediment-associated transport; A comparison of methods used to measure suspended sediment in Canada's federal monitoring programs; Monitoring networks and programmes; Erosion and sediment transport in South America: monitoring programmes and strategies; River morphology, sediments and fish habitats; Environmental studies in Western Europe using overbank sediment; Problems of monitoring erosion and sediment yields in southern Africa; Network evaluation and planning: Canada's sediment monitoring program; Planning sediment monitoring programs using a watershed model; Refining a tributary monitoring program for the Great Lakes basin; River reach characterization: a survey strategy for river regime and environmental Monitoring and analysis; The design and operation of sediment transport measurement programmes in river basins: the Chinese experience; Environmental quality: changing times for sediment programs; A sediment monitoring program for North America; The Vigil Network - long-term monitoring to assess landscape changes; Multipurpose studies of erosion and sedimentation in the Upper Ob basin; The Swedish network of sediment transport; Case studies; Sediment delivery in large prairie river basins, western Canada; Hydrological and sediment dynamics network design in a Mediterranean mountainous area subject to gylly erosion; Assessment of catchment erosion in the southern Pennines, United Kingdom, using reservoir sedimentation monitoring; Spatial and temporal variations in erosion and sediment yield; Assessment of the impact of farmland erosion on sediment quality: the Saskatchewan river basin, western Canada; Suspended sediment dynamics of a riverine lake of the St. Lawrence River, Canada; A programme of monitoring sediment transport in north central Luzon, the Philippines; Channel erosion and erosion monitoring along the Rhine River; Monitoring radionuclide and suspended-sediment transport in the Little Colorado River basin, Arizona and New Mexico, USA; Erosion and sediment transport in Papua New Guinea. Network design and monitoring. Case study: Ok Tedi Coppermine; The new sediment yield map for southern Africa.