DanubeSediment - Sediment balance of the river Rhine published in German

13-02-2018

While DanubeSediment is progressing in gathering and assessing sediment data on the Danube River, the International Commission for the Hydrology of the Rhine Basin (KHR/CHR) has published the first overall sediment balance of the River Rhine.

This report considers the origin, amount, and fate of the sediments transported by the river. This knowledge will improve the possibilities to control the extraction of material by dredging or to supply bedload material etc. Moreover, the study helps to assess changes in the river morphology caused by climate change.

For more information (in English) on the report: http://www.bafg.de/EN/Home/sedimentbilanz_rhein.html.

For download (in German only; English will be made available soon): http://doi.bafg.de/BfG/2017/KHR_22.2017.pdf

Co-authors of the study are Gudrun Hillebrand from the Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) in Koblenz, Germany and Roy Frings from the RWTH Aachen University in Germany.

Project partners from DanubeSediment and members of Rhein by Rüdlingen: By Tgfotos (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsBfG have agreed to exchange knowledge on the sediment situation in these two large European rivers - the Danube and the Rhine.

 

 

Image: By Tgfotos (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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