期刊
ESTUARIES AND COASTS
卷 34, 期 5, 页码 885-899出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-011-9382-x
关键词
Estuary; Sediment; Turbidity; Estuarine sediment transport; Suspended sediment; Sediment supply; Geomorphology; San Francisco Bay; Bed sediment; Bottom sediment; Sedimentation; Deposition; Aggradation; Degradation; Erosion; Resuspension; Erodible sediment pool; Sudden clearing; Suspended-sediment concentration
资金
- US Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District
The quantity of suspended sediment in an estuary is regulated either by transport, where energy or time needed to suspend sediment is limiting, or by supply, where the quantity of erodible sediment is limiting. This paper presents a hypothesis that suspended-sediment concentration (SSC) in estuaries can suddenly decrease when the threshold from transport to supply regulation is crossed as an erodible sediment pool is depleted. This study was motivated by a statistically significant 36% step decrease in SSC in San Francisco Bay from water years 1991-1998 to 1999-2007. A quantitative conceptual model of an estuary with an erodible sediment pool and transport or supply regulation of sediment transport is developed. Model results confirm that, if the regulation threshold was crossed in 1999, SSC would decrease rapidly after water year 1999 as observed. Estuaries with a similar history of a depositional sediment pulse followed by erosion may experience sudden clearing.
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