Quantifying sediment fluxes from acoustic Doppler current profilers

People Involved

Dr Christopher Hackney C.Hackney@hull.ac.uk
Research Assistant / Post-doctoral representative on the School Research Committee

Professor Daniel Parsons D.Parsons@hull.ac.uk
Professor in Sedimentology/ Director, Energy and Environment Institute

Dr Steve Simmons S.Simmons@hull.ac.uk
Lecturer in Energy and Environment

Calibration of the Environment Agency's ADCP units and back calculation of historical suspended sediment loads for selected sites.

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