Model Archive Summary for Turbidity Derived Suspended-Sediment Concentration at 14179000 Breitenbush River above French Creek near Detroit, Oregon

This document describes a new equation for estimating suspended-sediment concentration (SSC) at a fixed point from turbidity values at continuous 15-minute intervals and daily suspended sediment load at USGS site Breitenbush River above French Creek near Detroit, Oregon. The methods described follow USGS guidance as referenced in USGS Techniques and Methods, Book 3, Chap. C2 (Edwards and Glysson, 1999); Office of Surface Water Technical Memorandum (TM) 2016.07 (USGS, 2016); Office of Water Quality TM 2016.10; USGS Techniques and Methods, book 3, chap. C5 (Landers and others, 2016); and USGS Techniques and Methods, book 3, chap. C4 (Rasmussen and others, 2009).

References:
Edwards, T. K., Glysson, G. D. 1999. Field methods for Measurement of Fluvial Sediment: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods, Book 3, Chap. C2., https://doi.org/10.3133/twri03C2.

[USGS] U.S. Geological Survey, 2016, Policy and guidance for approval of surrogate regression models for computation of time series suspended sediment concentrations and loads: Office of Surface Water Technical Memorandum 2016.07, https://water.usgs.gov/admin/memo/QW/qw2016.10.pdf.

Landers, M. N., Straub, T. D., Wood, M. S., & Domanski M. M. 2016. Sediment Acoustic Index Method for Computing Continuous Suspended-Sediment Concentrations: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods. Book 3, Chap. 5. Section C., https://doi.org/10.3133/tm3C5.

Rasmussen P, Gray JR, Glysson GD, Ziegler AC. 2009, Guidelines and procedures for computing time-series suspended-sediment concentrations and loads from in-stream turbidity-sensor and streamflow data, Book 3 Applications of Hydraulics, Section C, 52 p, https://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm3c4/pdf/TM3C4.pdf.