Sediment Matters

Book Overview

I. Sediment transport processes.- Sediment transport in headwater streams of the Carpathian Flysch belt: its nature and recent effects of human interventions.- Aspects of sediment transport in single-thread and anabranching river channels in flysch Carpathians (a case study from the Czech Republic).- Sediment Transport Processes Related to the Operation of a Rapid Hydraulic Structure (Boulder Ramp) in a Mountain Stream Channel: A Polish Carpathian Example.- II. Modelling sediment transfer in rivers.- Challenges in Modelling Sediment Matters.- Suspended Sediment Estimation Using an Artificial Intelligence Approach.- Projected climate change impact on soil erosion and sediment yield in the River Elbe catchment.- III. Sediment Quality.- Water quality and sediment management in Brahmaputra Basin of India: impact of agricultural land use.- Contamination of sediments in the German North Sea estuaries Elbe, Weser and Ems and its sensitivity to climate change.- IV. Sediment Monitoring.- Application of a new monitoring strategy and analysis concept of suspended sediments in Austrian rivers.- Stream sediment geochemistry of the areas impacted by mines, B1 secondary catchment of the Olifants Primary Catchment Area, South Africa.- V. Sediment Managing in river basins.- Evaluating Reservoir Siting, Design and Operating Alternatives in the Mekong River Basin.- River-basin-scale sediment management: the Elbe case.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319382942
• ISBN13: 9783319382944
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"