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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1243-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1243-2024
Research article
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05 Nov 2024
Research article |  | 05 Nov 2024

River suspended-sand flux computation with uncertainty estimation using water samples and high-resolution ADCP measurements

Jessica Marggraf, Guillaume Dramais, Jérôme Le Coz, Blaise Calmel, Benoît Camenen, David J. Topping, William Santini, Gilles Pierrefeu, and François Lauters

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Suspended-sand fluxes in rivers vary with time and space, complicating their measurement. The proposed method captures the vertical and lateral variations of suspended-sand concentration throughout a river cross-section. It merges water samples taken at various positions throughout the cross-section with high-resolution acoustic velocity measurements. This is the first method that includes a fully applicable uncertainty estimation; it can easily be applied to any other study sites.