Turbidity-based Suspended Sediment Concentrations and Loads in the Dano Catchment, Burkina Faso, 2014

The table shows the turbidity-based suspended sediment concentration and loads as calculated based on the regression equation of turbidity and manually taken sediment samples.

Date (Publication): 2018-01-05T00:00:00

Presentation form: Digital table

Status: Completed

Author

University Bonn - Felix Op de Hipt ( )

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

erosion
water erosion
sediment transport
soil erosion
sediment
turbidity

Theme

sediment concentration
sediment load

Region

Burkina Faso

Place

Dano

Access constraints: Copyright

Use constraints: License

Other constraints: This data is licensed under ODC Open Database License (ODbL)

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Citation:

Op de Hipt, F. (2018): Turbidity-based Suspended Sediment Concentrations and Loads in the Dano Catchment, Burkina Faso, 2014

https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/?uuid=126e531f-6801-4cd7-86d9-f528214e8096

Aggregate Datasetindentifier: 8913bfca-b160-4a8d-b955-367ce58c818d

Association Type: Cross reference

Initiative Type: Study

Metadata language: English

Topic category

Boundaries

Begin date: 2014-07-27T14:00:00

End date: 2014-10-09T09:15:00

Supplemental Information: Year = Year

Month = Month

Day = Day

Hour = day hour

Water discharge is given in m3/s

Turbidity is given in nephelometric turbidity units (NTU)

Suspended sediment concentration (SSC) is given in kg/m3

Suspended sediment load (SSL) is given in kg/s

The spreadsheet "regression equation" comprises information regarding the regression equation.

Distribution format

MS Excel ( 2013 )

Distributor

Distributor

University Bonn - Felix Op de Hipt

OnLine resource: WSC_hydr_turb_SSC-SSL_dano_burkina_2013.xlsx ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Data

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: The SSC was calculated based on the regression equation which was established based on measured SSC and turbidity. The SSL was calculated by multiplying the discharge with the SSC.

Measurement was taken at one station in the Dano catchment.