Assessing Sediment Processes
- Critical problems of spatial and temporal variability
- Need to characterize incoming sediment loads
- Importance of fluctuations even in quasi-steady flows
- Need for predictive models based upon first principles and reproducible independent measurements (e.g. Sedflume)
- Need for improved understanding of mechanism of erosion and deposition of cohesive sediments
- Need for modeling dynamical mechanical properties of bed for consolidation, porewater extrusion and response of bed to storm events