Construction of sediment budgets for drainage basins

William E. Dietrich; Thomas Dunne; Neil F. Humphrey; Leslie M. Reid

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Construction of sediment budgets for drainage basins

Informally Refereed

Authors:

William E. Dietrich, Thomas Dunne, Neil F. Humphrey, Leslie M. Reid

Year:

1982

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

In: Sediment Budgets and Routing in Forested Drainage Basins: Proceedings of the Symposium; 31 May - 1 June 1982; Corvallis, Oregon. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-141. Portland, Oregon: Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 1982: 5-23.

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Abstract

Abstract - A sediment budget for a drainage basin is a quantitative statement of the rates of production, transport, and discharge of detritus. To construct a sediment budget for a drainage basin, one must integrate the temporal and spatial variations of transport and storage processes. This requires: recognition and quantification of transport processes, recognition and quantification of storage elements, and identification of linkages among transport processes and storage elements. To accomplish this task, it is necessary to know the detailed dynamics of transport processes and storage sites, including such problems as defining the recurrence interval of each transport process at a place.

Keywords

PSW4351, sediment, sediment budget, drainage basin, transport processes, storage elements

Citation

Dietrich, William E.; Dunne, Thomas; Humphrey, Neil F.; Reid, Leslie M. 1982. Construction of sediment budgets for drainage basins. In: Sediment Budgets and Routing in Forested Drainage Basins: Proceedings of the Symposium; 31 May - 1 June 1982; Corvallis, Oregon. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-141. Portland, Oregon: Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 1982: 5-23.