The Role of Bedload Transport in the Development of a Proglacial River Alluvial Fan (Case Study: Scott River, Southwest Svalbard)

• Published in: Hydrology
• Main Author: Waldemar Kociuba
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021
• Subjects: bedload sampling; bedload flux; river bedload trap; proglacial gravel-bed river; sediment budgeting; Svalbard; Science; Q; Scott River; Wedel Jarlsberg Land; Wedel-Jarlsberg
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology8040173; https://doaj.org/article/f3735c10d8c1413a9970149b0d539e13

This study, which was conducted between 2010 and 2013, presents the results of direct, continuous measurements of the bedload transport rate at the mouth section of the Scott River catchment (NW part of Wedel-Jarlsberg Land, Svalbard). In four consecutive melt seasons, the bedload flux was analyzed...