Prediction of highly non linear behavior of suspended sediment flow in rivers has prime importance in the field of water resources engineering. In this study the predictive performance of two Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) namely, the Radial Basis Function (RBF) Network and the Multi Layer Feed Forward (MLFF) Network have been compared. Time series data of daily suspended sediment discharge ...

estimation of river sediment load is one of the most important issues in design of hydraulic structures, investigating water quality, conserving fish habitat, estimating erosion and determining watershed management effects. there are two methods for estimating sediment load: empirical and hydrological methods. existence of numerous empirical methods for estimation of river sediment load and a w...

The paper presents an overview of recent publications on the fluvial suspended sediment flux to the Arctic Ocean. The total suspended matter exported from the Russian territory is 102×10 t/year and from the Canadian Arctic is 125×10 t/year. The total suspended matter (TSM) flux to the Arctic (227×10 t/year) is very low, only about 1% of the global flux. Mean concentrations of suspended matter a...

PAN, C. and HUANG, W., 2010. Numerical modeling of suspended sediment transport in Qiantang River: an estuary affected by tidal bore. Journal of Coastal Research, 26(6), 1123–1132. West Palm Beach (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Study of suspended sediment transport in an estuary affected by tidal bore is important for coastal engineering and management because the tidal bore can cause strong sedime...

soil erosion is one of the most destructive phenomena which cause significant ecological changes in many areas. soil conservation and erosion control is essential because of the irreparable damage caused by soil erosion. soil conservation programs will not achieve until to find adequate methods of combating land degradation and ways to reduce the sediment. therefore, we need to have enough know...

The Eel River draining the Coast Range of northwestern California has the highest recorded average suspended sediment yield per drainage area of any river of its size or larger unaffected by volcanic eruptions or active glaciers in the conterminous United States (1,720 t/kmyr from 9,390 km; Brown and Ritter, 1971). These high rates of erosion and sediment transport result from a combination of ...

in this paper, two formulas were chosen among those that estimate the suspendedsediment discharge in rivers. these two formulas were lane and kalinske and bagnold. forstudying and knowing the correlation between input parameters and calculated suspendedsediment discharge (cssd), the spss17 software was used. input parameters in these twoformulas were as: water velocity, water discharge, suspend...