Suspended Sediment Transport in Proglacial Linnéelva, Spitsbergen, 2007

• Main Author: Christina Carr
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2013
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION > SEDIMENTS; EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > LAND RECORDS > SEDIMENTS; EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > OCEAN/LAKE RECORDS > SEDIMENTS; EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > OCEAN/LAKE RECORDS > VARVE DEPOSITS; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION > ENTRAINMENT; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION > SEDIMENTATION; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION > DEGRADATION; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION > SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > FROZEN GROUND > PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION > SUSPENDED SOLIDS; IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > SAMPLERS > GRABBERS/TRAPS/COLLECTORS > SEDIMENT TRAPS; IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > CORERS > SEDIMENT CORERS; EARTH REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTS > PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING > POSITIONING/NAVIGATION > GPS > GPS > GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > PROBES > PROBES; IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > CORERS > CORING DEVICES; IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > PROBES > STEEL MEASURING TAPE; IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > CURRENT/WIND METERS > CURRENT METERS; MANNED FIELD STATION; HOURLY TO DAILY; DAILY TO WEEKLY; 1 MINUTE TO 1 HOUR; WEEKLY TO MONTHLY; inlandWaters; environment; climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; Svalbard; Jan Mayen; Linnéelva; North Atlantic; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2901ZF4P

Suspended sediment concentration and discharge measurements from the proglacial stream Linnéelva are reported for a three week period during the 2006 melt season. This period included a threshold discharge event in which suspended sediment concentration increased dramatically, resulting in 25% of total monitored sediment transport occurring in less than 3% (15 hours) of the total monitored time period. This appears to have been a sediment flushing event, with the system displaying sediment exhaustion following the peak in discharge and suspended sediment concentration. Denudation rates are estimated based on the calculated 1.41 million kilograms of suspended sediment transported by Linnéelva during the monitored time period. Based on this study, denudation in the upper part of the Linné valley is between 90mm/1000 yr and 350mm/1000yr.