La date limite pour soumission de proposition d'un résumé pour la prochaine assemblée générale EGU, à Vienne, est le 13 janvier 2016.
HS9.1/GM9.7/SSS12.29
Measurement and monitoring techniques for evaluating sediment transport and dynamic processes in open-water environments
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/20282
Convener: Axel Winterscheid
Co-Conveners: Gabriele Harb, Stephan Dietrich, Stefan Haun, Nils Rüther and Mário J Franca
Session Announcement:
Sedimentary processes and transport mechanism in aquatic environments are key features for various research disciplines, e.g. in geomorphological and paleoclimatogical research or in hydraulic engineering. An accurate evaluation of sediment fluxes of the study site is fundamental for the development of sediment budgets or the calibration and validation of numerical simulations.
Innovative measurement techniques and monitoring concepts are important tools to determine the transport processes in rivers, lakes and reservoirs, estuaries as well as maritime and coastal environments. However, the used techniques and concepts have to be selected carefully and have to be adapted to specific in-situ conditions due to the individuality of each field site. As a consequence, monitoring concepts often need to be extended to other measured variables e.g., in order to evaluate discharge - sediment flux rating curves or to review assumptions made for the sediment yield coming from the catchment. An additional focus is the measurement based determination and evaluation of bed load and suspended load transport, morphological changes and morphologically relevant processes like bed armouring, colmation, consolidation, flocculation, re-suspension or hindered settling.
The main goal of this session is to bring together scholars conducting innovative research. Therefore, contributions are appreciated with a particular focus on single and combined measurement techniques, on post-processing methods as well as on innovative and advanced monitoring concepts. Furthermore, we welcome contributions that are presenting recent results on methods for the evaluation of sediment budgets, sedimentary as well as on morphodynamic processes in open water environments in a temporal and spatial scale.