Measuring bed load discharge in rivers: Bedload-surrogate monitoring workshop Minneapolis, Minnesota, 11-14 April 2007

Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union
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Abstract

The International Bedload-Surrogate Monitoring Workshop (http://www.nced.umn.edu/BRIC_2007.html), organized by the Bedload Research International Cooperative (BRIC; www.bedloadresearch.org), was held to assess and abet progress in continuous, semiautomated, or fully automated (surrogate) technologies for monitoring bed load discharge in gravel-, sand-, and mixed gravel-sand-bedded rivers. Direct bed load measurements, particularly at medium and high flows, during which most bed load occurs, tend to be time-consuming, expensive, and potentially hazardous. Surrogate technologies developed largely over the past decade and used at a number of research sites around the world show considerable promise toward providing relatively dense, robust, and quantifiably reliable bed load data sets. However, information on the efficacy of selected technologies for use in monitoring programs is needed, as is identification of the ways and means for bringing the most promising and practical of the technologies to fruition.
Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Measuring bed load discharge in rivers: Bedload-surrogate monitoring workshop Minneapolis, Minnesota, 11-14 April 2007
Series title Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union
DOI 10.1029/2007EO450008
Volume 88
Issue 45
Year Published 2007
Language English
Publisher Wiley
Contributing office(s) Office of Surface Water
Description 1 p.
First page 471
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