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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 40, 2018
River Flow 2018 - Ninth International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics
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Article Number | 02009 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | River morphodynamics and restoration | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20184002009 | |
Published online | 05 September 2018 |
Improving bedload transport determination by grain-size fraction using the Swiss plate geophone recordings at the Erlenbach stream
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
* Corresponding author: dieter.rickenmann@wsl.ch
Direct bedload samples were taken with a large metal basket at the steep Erlenbach stream in Switzerland. These measurements were compared with the signal of the Swiss impact plate geophone system to derive information about bedload transport. The so-called amplitude histogram (AH) method was developed in an earlier study to estimate the bedload flux for different grain-size classes at the Erlenbach. A new analysis of a larger set of measurements was made here to improve the performance of the AH method. The approach relies on an identification of the transported grain sizes through their dependency on the signal amplitude. As a new element we introduce here the impulse rate, which is found to affect the number of impulses recorded for each amplitude class. As compared to the original method, the new version of the AH method shows a slightly improved performance for total calculated bedload mass, and results in a clearly better agreement between calculated and measured characteristic grain sizes.
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