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Mapping of suspended sediment transport using acoustic methods in a Pantanal tributary.
Wosiacki, Liege F K; Suekame, Hugo Koji; Wood, Molly S; Gonçalves, Fábio Veríssimo; Bleninger, Tobias.
Afiliação
  • Wosiacki LFK; Graduate Program On Water Resources and Environmental Engineering (PPGERHA), Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil. liegewosiacki@gmail.com.
  • Suekame HK; Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Urbanism and Geography, Federal University of Mato Grosso Do, Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil.
  • Wood MS; U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Water Resources Mission Area, Boise, USA.
  • Gonçalves FV; Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Urbanism and Geography, Federal University of Mato Grosso Do, Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil.
  • Bleninger T; Department of Environmental Engineering, Graduate Program On Water Resources and Environmental Engineering (PPGERHA), Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil.
Environ Monit Assess ; 193(8): 493, 2021 Jul 15.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34268654
Generally, fluvial systems are used for different objectives including energy production, water supply, recreation, and navigation. Thus, many impacts must be considered with their use. An understanding of sediment dynamics in fluvial systems is often of value for a variety of objectives, given that erosion and depositional processes can change the fluvial system morphology and can substantially alter the fluvial environment. In this sense, sediment monitoring is important because it helps to explain and quantify sediment dynamics in the environment. Hence, this study presents an innovative sediment monitoring technique: the use of the acoustic Doppler current profiler, commonly used to obtain discharge measurements, to obtain suspended sediment concentration (SSC). This paper aims to describe the application of additional corrections to the ADP-M9 signal to obtain SSC from measurement campaigns that used the ADP only for discharge measurements. The analyses were based on traditional sediment sampling methods and discharge measurements, with the ADP-M9, from 7 field campaigns at the Taquari River, a major tributary from the Alto Paraguay Basin, in the Pantanal Biome, known as the largest freshwater wetland system in the world. The correlation was assessed considering the following: (a) the equipment frequency operation mode (Smart Pulse or Fixed Frequency) and (b) by checking the influence of the sediment attenuation coefficient. Furthermore, extrapolation was conducted in filtered and unmeasured areas of the ADP to map the suspended sediment concentration over the entire cross section. Results indicate that ADP correlations can be an effective tool for estimating SSC in the Taquari River when samples cannot be collected. Correlations could be applied to past and future ADP measurements made at the location where the correlation was created, as long as similar environmental conditions are present as when the correlation was developed. The described technique can expand the amount of sediment data available at a monitoring site even with reduced traditional sampling and by leveraging instruments used for other monitoring purposes.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Monitoramento Ambiental / Sedimentos Geológicos País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Paraguay Idioma: En Revista: Environ Monit Assess Assunto da revista: SAUDE AMBIENTAL Ano de publicação: 2021 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Brasil País de publicação: Holanda

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Monitoramento Ambiental / Sedimentos Geológicos País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Paraguay Idioma: En Revista: Environ Monit Assess Assunto da revista: SAUDE AMBIENTAL Ano de publicação: 2021 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Brasil País de publicação: Holanda