VARIABILITY IN MEASURED BEDLOAD-TRANSPORT RATES.
January 1, 1985
During a four-day period of nearly constant water discharge, four sets of consecutively collected bedload samples, ranging from 43 to 120 samples, were obtained at the same cross channel location using a standard 65-pound Helley-Smith bedload sampler. When the measured transport rates are converted to dimensionless rates and plotted as cumulative frequency distributions, they show good agreement with a theoretical probability distribution function of rates derived for the case of ripples on dunes. The distributions show that during constant water discharge individual measured rates at a fixed point vary from near zero to four times the mean rate, and 60 percent of the sampled rates will be less than the mean.
Citation Information
Publication Year | 1985 |
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Title | VARIABILITY IN MEASURED BEDLOAD-TRANSPORT RATES. |
Authors | William P. Carey |
Publication Type | Article |
Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
Series Title | Water Resources Bulletin |
Index ID | 70012911 |
Record Source | USGS Publications Warehouse |