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Suspended sediment dynamics in the macrotidal seine estuary

DOC1 Numerical modeling of turbidity maximum dynamics
1. Introduction
2. Material and methods
2.1. Study area
2.2. Numerical model setup
2.3. In situ measurements
3. Validation of the numerical model
3.1. Hydro dynamics
3.2. Salinity
3.3. Wave dynamics
3.4. Suspended sediment dynamics
3.5. Quantification of error margin for simulated SSC
4. Analysis of ETM location and mass dynamics
4.1. Method to estimate ETM location and mass
4.2. Tide, river flow and wave influence on ETM location
4.3. Tide, river flow and wave influence on ETM mass
5. Conclusions
References

DOC2 Numerical modeling of sediment fluxes and budget under typical hydrological and meteorological conditions
1. Introduction
1.1. Estuarine sediment dynamics
1.2. Investigation of sediment fluxes and budgets
1.3. Application to the macrotidal Seine estuary
2. Methods: numerical models, setup and postprocessing
2.1. Hydrodynamic model
2.2. Sediment model
2.3. Model fording experiments, spin-up and evaluation periods
3. Results and discussions: sediments fluxes and budgets under different forcing
3.1. Flux and budget patterns in the reference experiment
3.2. Effect of lower or higher river discharge
3.3. Effect of more frequent and stronger storms
3.4. Sensitivity of sediment fluxes to the mud settling velocity
3.5. Representativeness of sediment flux simulations
4. Conclusions
References