DOI: 10.16904/envidat.459
title: Sediment transport observations in Swiss mountain streams

description: The Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL has extensive experience with surrogate bedload transport measurements. The first measuring site was established in the Erlenbach stream, a small (first-order) catchment in the pre-alpine valley Alptal in central Switzerland. Continuous bedload transport measurements were started in 1986, using first piezoelectric sensors (1986 to 1999) and then geophone sensors (from 2002 onwards) underneath a steel plate and mounted flush with the streambed. In the meantime, the so-called Swiss plate geophone (SPG) system has been installed at more than 20 field sites, primarily in smaller and steeper streams in Switzerland, Austria, and Italy but also in a few larger rivers and in some other streams worldwide (Israel, USA, Japan). 
Sediment transport observations in Switzerland with the SPG system concern the following streams: Erlenbach near Brunni (Alptal valley), Albula at Tiefencastel, Navisence at Zinal, Avançon de Nant near Pont de Nant (see map). The data in this repository primarily refer to calibration measurements with the SPG system. The publications listed here discuss primarily the performance of the measuring system but also process-based aspects of bedload transport.
description: Resource Title: Data-variability-SPG-response
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 Description: Data used in paper: Antoniazza, G., Nicollier, T., Wyss, C.R., Boss, S., Rickenmann, D., 2020. Bedload Transport Monitoring in Alpine Rivers: Variability in Swiss Plate Geophone Response. Sensors 2020, 20, 4089; doi:10.3390/s20154089
description: Resource Title: Erlenbach_event-bedload_periods-A-B
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 Description: Data used in paper: Rickenmann, D., 2020. Effect of Sediment Supply on Cyclic Fluctuations of the Disequilibrium Ratio and Threshold Transport Discharge, Inferred from Bedload Transport Measurements over 27 Years at the Swiss Erlenbach stream. Water Resources Research, 56, e2020WR027741. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027741
description: Resource Title: SPG field calibration data
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 Description: SPG field calibration data from the Erlenbach (since 2009), the Albula (2018), the Navisence (2019) and the Avançon de Nant (2019-2020) monitoring stations. Data used in following papers: 
"Toward a General Calibration of the Swiss Plate Geophone System for Fractional Bedload Transport" submitted to Earth Surface Dynamics on the 14th of January 2022.
"Improving the Calibration of Impact Plate Bedload Monitoring Systems by Filtering Out Acoustic Signals from Extraneous Particle Impacts" submitted to Earth and Space Science on the 13th of August 2021.
description: Resource Title: SPG flume experiment data
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 Description: SPG data from controlled flume experiments conducted at the Obernach outdoor flume facility (TU Munich) between 2018 and 2020. Data used in following papers: 
"Toward a General Calibration of the Swiss Plate Geophone System for Fractional Bedload Transport" submitted to Earth Surface Dynamics on the 14th of January 2022.
"Improving the Calibration of Impact Plate Bedload Monitoring Systems by Filtering Out Acoustic Signals from Extraneous Particle Impacts" submitted to Earth and Space Science on the 13th of August 2021.
description: Resource Title: Hydrological drivers of bedload transport in Avançon de Nant
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 Description: Data used in paper: Antoniazza, G., Nicollier, T., Boss, S., Mettra, F., Badoux, A., Schaefli, B., Rickenmann, D., Lane, S.N., 2022. Hydrological Drivers of Bedload Transport in an Alpine Watershed. Water Resources Research, 58, e2021WR030663. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030663
description: Resource Title: Comparison of calibration characteristics of different acoustic impact systems
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 Description: Data used in paper: Rickenmann, D., Ammann, L., Nicollier, T., Boss, S., Fritschi, B., Antoniazza, G., Steeb, N., Chen, Z., Wyss, C., Badoux, A. (2022). Comparison of calibration characteristics of different acoustic impact systems for measuring bedload transport in mountain streams. Earth Surface Dynamics Discussions, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-2022-7
description: Resource Title: avancon-de-nant-event-3-August-2020.zip
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 Description: Data used in paper: Antoniazza, G., Dietze, M., Mancini, D., Turowski, J.M., Rickenmann, D., Nicollier, T., Boss, S., Lane, S.N. (2023). Anatomy of an Alpine bedload transport event: A watershed-scale seismic-network perspective. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 128, e2022JF007000. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JF007000
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description: Resource Title: Erlenbach-27-years-bedload-data.zip
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 Description: Erlenbach-27-years-bedload-dat
Data used in paper: Rickenmann, D., 2023. Bedload transport fluctuations, flow conditions and disequilibrium ratio at the Swiss Erlenbach stream: results from 27 years of high- resolution temporal measurements. Earth Surface Dynamics.