Measuring sediment yields of storms using PSALT

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  • ROBERT B. THOMAS
  • Robert B. Thomas
چکیده

Storm yields of water and sediment are being measured as part of a study of the effects of roading, logging, and burning in a second-growth redwood forest in northern California. Two primary basins, each about 500 ha, and 13 sub-basins in one of them are measured for sediment flux and the presence and magnitude of sediment-based “cumulative effects”. Study objectives require a more sophisticated sediment sampling design than typically used in watershed experiments. Sediment is sampled and estimated by using PSALT a probability-based method for sampling that enhances data collection during high flows. The method is applied to storms defined after field data are collected. The sampling sites are visited at arbitrary times during storm periods. Because PSALT data are independent they can be combined to give unbiased estimates of suspended sediment yield and its variance during storms. Problems of applying the method to a large number of basins are disc ussed along with their solutions. Le calcul des debits de sediment provenant des averses en utilisant la methode PSALT Resume Les debits de l’eau et des sediments, provenant des averses sont mesures comme un element de l’etude des effets de la construction de routes, du deboisement et du brulage qui y fait suite dans une forê t de bois rouge deuxieme generation dans le nord de la Californie. Sur deux bassins versants principaux, chacun d’une etendue d’a peu pres 500 ha, ainsi que sur 13 sous-bassins qui se trouvent dans I’un des deux, on mesure le flux des sediments et la presence et la grandeur des “effets cumulatifs” de ceux-ci. Les objectifs de I’etude exigent un echantillonnage des sediments qui serait plus sophistique que celui qui est typiquement employe dans les analyses des versants. Le sediment est donc echantillonne et estime par moyen de PSALT une methode d’echantillonnage fondee sur la probabilite, qui donne plus de poids a la quantite des donnees rassemblees pendant les ecoulements abondants. Or, la methode s’applique aux averses

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تاریخ انتشار 1988