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Application of a New Monitoring Strategy and Analysis Concept of Suspended Sediments in Austrian Rivers

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In recent years the hydrological service in Austria developed and implemented a new, continuous, long term suspended sediment monitoring system taking the spatial and temporal variability of the suspended sediment transport process into consideration. The new monitoring strategy and analysis concept during the data processing was applied at 28 measurement sites for the period from 2009 to 2011. Furthermore a lot of investigation was done to verify and validate the suspended sediment data in preparation for the annual publication. The results of analysis of the suspended sediment concentrations, transport rates, loads and yields in Austrian Rivers confirm the well done verification and validation and allow conclusions about the respective suspended sediment transport processes.

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Acknowledgments

This work was financially supported by the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management. A special thank goes to the Hydrographic Services and via donau for the financial support, the supply of resources and performing the field measurements. The financial support by the Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth and the National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development is gratefully acknowledged. We want to thank our colleagues especially Gabriele Müller and Reinhold Godina for their extremely useful comments and suggestions.

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  1. Division IV/4 Water Balance, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Marxergasse 2, 1030, Vienna, Austria

    Petra Lalk

  2. Christian Doppler Laboratory for Advanced Methods in River Monitoring, Modelling and Engineering, Institute of Water Management, Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, Department of Water – Atmosphere – Environment, BOKU—University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Marlene Haimann & Helmut Habersack

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Lalk, P., Haimann, M., Habersack, H. (2015). Application of a New Monitoring Strategy and Analysis Concept of Suspended Sediments in Austrian Rivers. In: Heininger, P., Cullmann, J. (eds) Sediment Matters. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14696-6_10

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