Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-363-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-363-2023
Research article
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05 May 2023
Research article |  | 05 May 2023

Phenomenological model of suspended sediment transport in a small catchment

Amande Roque-Bernard, Antoine Lucas, Eric Gayer, Pascal Allemand, Céline Dessert, and Eric Lajeunesse

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Sediment transport in rivers is an important matter in Earth surface dynamics. We offer a new framework of understanding of the suspended sediment transport through observatory chronicles and a simple model that is able to catch the behavior during a flood event as well as time series in a steep river catchment. We validate our approach in both tropical and alpine environments, which also offers additional estimates of the size of the suspended sediment.
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