scholarly journals Suspended sediment and sediment-source areas in the Fountain Creek drainage basin upstream from Widefield, southeastern Colorado

1989 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Suspended Sediment ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Sediment Source ◽  
Source Areas

An updated sediment source areas inventory in the Rio Cordon catchment (Dolomites)

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 10-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caterina Ferrato ◽  
Jessica De Marco ◽  
Paolo Tarolli ◽  
Marco Cavalli
Keyword(s):  
Sediment Source ◽  
Source Areas

scholarly journals Using SWAT to Evaluate Streamflow and Lake Sediment Loading in the Xinjiang River Basin with Limited Data

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lifeng Yuan ◽  
Kenneth J. Forshay
Keyword(s):  
Soil Erosion ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Lake Sediment ◽  
Sediment Yield ◽  
Sediment Load ◽  
Poyang Lake ◽  
Sediment Source ◽  
Sediment Loading ◽  
Source Areas ◽  
Annual Sediment

Soil erosion and lake sediment loading are primary concerns of watershed managers around the world. In the Xinjiang River Basin of China, severe soil erosion occurs primarily during monsoon periods, resulting in sediment flow into Poyang Lake and subsequently causing lake water quality deterioration. Here, we identified high-risk soil erosion areas and conditions that drive sediment yield in a watershed system with limited available data to guide localized soil erosion control measures intended to support reduced sediment load into Poyang Lake. We used the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model to simulate monthly and annual sediment yield based on a calibrated SWAT streamflow model, identified where sediment originated, and determined what geographic factors drove the loading within the watershed. We applied monthly and daily streamflow discharge (1985–2009) and monthly suspended sediment load data (1985–2001) to Meigang station to conduct parameter sensitivity analysis, calibration, validation, and uncertainty analysis of the model. The coefficient of determination (R2), Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE), percent bias (PBIAS), and RMSE -observation’s standard deviation ratio (RSR) values of the monthly sediment load were 0.63, 0.62, 3.8%, and 0.61 during calibration, respectively. Spatially, the annual sediment yield rate ranged from 3 ton ha−1year−1 on riparian lowlands of the Xinjiang main channel to 33 ton ha−1year−1 on mountain highlands, with a basin-wide mean of 19 ton ha−1year−1. The study showed that 99.9% of the total land area suffered soil loss (greater than 5 ton ha−1year−1). More sediment originated from the southern mountain highlands than from the northern mountain highlands of the Xinjiang river channel. These results suggest that specific land use types and geographic conditions can be identified as hotspots of sediment source with relatively scarce data; in this case, orchards, barren lands, and mountain highlands with slopes greater than 25° were the primary sediment source areas. This study developed a reliable, physically-based streamflow model and illustrates critical source areas and conditions that influence sediment yield.

scholarly journals Suspended sediment source and propagation during monsoon events across nested sub-catchments with contrasted land uses in Laos

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 69-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvain Huon ◽  
Olivier Evrard ◽  
Elian Gourdin ◽  
Irène Lefèvre ◽  
Thierry Bariac ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suspended Sediment ◽  
Sediment Source ◽  
Land Uses

Study on the Tidal Current and Suspended Sediment Transport in Taizhou Bay

2012 ◽  
Vol 212-213 ◽  
pp. 55-58
Author(s):  
Jie He ◽  
Xin Sheng Zhao ◽  
Yu Fan Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Sediment Transport ◽  
Numerical Model ◽  
Suspended Sediment ◽  
Tidal Current ◽  
Sediment Concentration ◽  
Suspended Sediment Transport ◽  
Sediment Source ◽  
Sea Floor ◽  
Hydrologic Data ◽  
The Way

Taizhou Bay is an estuary with high tidel range, middle tidal current and low sediment concentration. For the sea floor is very dense, it is stable in the usual water regimen. The numerical model is introduced to simulate the suspended sediment transport in Taizhou Bay. And the recent hydrologic data and the seabed change have been validated by the numerical model. The movement of tidal current and sediment in Dagagn Bay are simulated, and the sediment siltation in port designed is calculated by the model. The results show that the sediment source is from the shoal produced by the ebb current, and the sediment silting is decreased two-thirds by the cofferdam back of the bay, because the way of the suspended sediment is stopped by the cofferdam from the shoal to the harbor.

Fluvial clastic sediment yield in Canada: scaled analysis

1999 ◽  
Vol 36 (8) ◽  
pp. 1267-1280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Church ◽  
Darren Ham ◽  
Marwan Hassan ◽  
Olav Slaymaker
Keyword(s):  
Suspended Sediment ◽  
Sediment Yield ◽  
Sediment Load ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Scaling Relations ◽  
Southern Ontario ◽  
Fluvial Sediment ◽  
Predicted Values ◽  
River Valleys ◽  
Basin Area

This report presents a set of maps of regional fluvial sediment yield in Canada, based mainly on the Water Survey of Canada archive of riverine suspended sediment observations. Regional scaling relations for the variation of suspended sediment load with drainage basin area are established to permit data to be adjusted to common areal bases for portrayal of regional variations. For most regions, the specific sediment yield increases downstream, indicating regional degradation of river valleys. In the southern prairies, however, regional aggradation is occurring, and in southern Ontario similar quantities of fluvial sediment are apparently being yielded, on average, over all scales in the landscape. A smoothed regional portrayal of the results is obtained by kriging, which also yields error estimates for locally predicted values of sediment yield. Maps are presented for the standard areas of 1 km2, 102 km2 (10 km × 10 km), and 104 km2 (102 km × 102 km).

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