A review of the principles of turbidity measurement

BGB Kitchener, J Wainwright… - Progress in Physical …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Turbidity of water due to the presence of suspended sediment is measured and interpreted
in a variety of ways, which can lead to the misinterpretation of data. This paper re-examines …

Technological advances in suspended‐sediment surrogate monitoring

JR Gray, JW Gartner - Water resources research, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Surrogate technologies to continuously monitor suspended sediment show promise toward
supplanting traditional data collection methods requiring routine collection and analysis of …

Twenty-five years with OBS sensors: The good, the bad, and the ugly

J Downing - Continental Shelf Research, 2006 - Elsevier
Since their development for investigating sand transport in the surf zone more than 25 years
ago, optical backscatter sensors (OBSs) have been in continual use for a wide variety of …

Continuous measurement of suspended sediment concentration: Technological advancement and future outlook

AK Rai, A Kumar - Measurement, 2015 - Elsevier
Sediment affected water resources require frequent and accurate suspended sediment
concentration (SSC) data for proper design, operation and management. The traditional …

Why and how do we study sediment transport? Focus on coastal zones and ongoing methods

S Ouillon - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
Scientific research on sediment dynamics in the coastal zone and along the littoral zone has
evolved considerably over the last four decades. It benefits from a technological revolution …

Open-source, low-cost, in-situ turbidity sensor for river network monitoring

J Droujko, P Molnar - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Fine sediment transport in rivers is important for catchment nutrient fluxes, global
biogeochemical cycles, water quality and pollution in riverine, coastal and marine …

Water turbidity sensing using a smartphone

I Hussain, K Ahamad, P Nath - Rsc Advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper demonstrates a rapid, cost-effective and field-portable smartphone based
turbidimeter that measures turbidity of water samples collected from different natural water …

Understanding watershed suspended sediment transport

P Gao - Progress in Physical Geography, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Suspended sediment at the watershed scale has played a critical role in sediment pollution,
water-quality degradation, and the impairment of riparian ecosystems, and thus has been …

Guidance on setup, calibration, and validation of hydrodynamic, wave, and sediment models for shelf seas and estuaries

JJ Williams, LS Esteves - Advances in civil engineering, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The paper is motivated by a present lack of clear model performance guidelines for shelf sea
and estuarine modellers seeking to demonstrate to clients and end users that a model is fit …

Suspended particulate matter dynamics and aggregate sizes in a high turbidity area

M Fettweis, F Francken, V Pison, D Van den Eynde - Marine Geology, 2006 - Elsevier
Measurements of aggregate size, suspended particulate matter (SPM) concentration and
current velocity have been carried out in the Belgian coastal zone (southern North Sea). Two …