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Manual Sediment Transport Measurements in Rivers, Estuaries and Coastal Seas
This article introduces the Manual Sediment Transport Measurements in Rivers, Estauries and Coastal Seas (Van Rijn, 1986[1]; 2007[2]). The article contains links to articles with summaries of the manual and to the pdf-files of the manual. See also the alphabetic overview of all articles with summaries of the manual.
The Manual Sediment Transport Measurements in Rivers, Estauries and Coastal Seas is a volume of about 500 pages containing all details of measurement instruments and methods for mud, silt and sand transport in rivers, estuaries and coastal seas. The manual includes: definitions and measuring principles and errors involved, methods to compute sediment transport from measured data, a wide range of instruments from simple mechanical samplers to sophisticated electronic equipment. Bed load transport as well as suspended load transport are addressed. Methods and instruments to measure particle size and particle fall velocity are discussed. Laboratory and in-situ sample analysis are described. Instrumentation for determining the wet bulk density of bed material (important for dredging studies) is presented. Remote sensing by video camera recording is also discussed. Regular updates of the methods and instrumentation are made.
The Coastal Wiki comprises a summary of the manual. All summarizing articles contain links to pdf-files of the manual, which are hosted on a website of WL|Delft Hydraulics
