How long do you actually need to measure sediment transport to get a representative picture of what’s happening in a gravel-bed river?
Our new preprint dives into this, and is now online: doi.org/10.22541/ess...
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Sampling suggestions for bedload sediment transport measurements near the threshold of motion | ESS Open Archive
In gravel-bed rivers, sediment transport is commonly intermittent, with low background
rates of motion punctuated by short, rare events of elevated activity. Although the
physical mechanisms explainin...