## Analysis of sediment transport from recorded signals of sediments in a gravel-bed river: role of sediment availability

Geophones were used as a proxy for determining the behavior of sediment transport in boulder mountain river. Field observations aggregated by a statistical analysis (PCA) allowed to identifying periods in which the behaviour between the water discharge $(Q_{w})$, the sediment flux $(Q_{s})$ and the meteorologic conditions was correlated. Within each period a relationship between $(Q_{s})$ and Qw could be found and summarized by two parameters: the critical drag discharge for motion initiation $((Q_{d})$ and the mean transport rate $(T_{mean})$. The coefficients of determination were close to 0.8, which showed the consistency of the linear relationship. The variability in the relationship $(Q_{s})$ $(Q_{w})$ could be related to the availability to motion of sediments. In contrast with laboratory experiments, in which sediment storage is indefinitely large, natural systems can suffer from sediment shortage under certain conditions. This may explain why bedload transport equations determined from laboratory experiments significantly overestimate the bedload transport rate.

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Lollino, Giorgio
Arattano, Massimo
Rinaldi, Massimo
guistolisi, Orazio
Maréchal, Jean-Christophe
Grant, Gordon
Publié dans:
Engineering Geology for Society and Territory, 3, 477-482
Présenté à:
IAEG XII Congress, Torino, Italy, September 15-19
Année
2014
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Springer international Publishing
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