Table 1-01-05 new code for Suspended sediment discharge

[amilan17]

Initial request

Suspended sediment discharge
Current definition: Rate of movement of sediment which is suspended by turbulence in flowing water for considerable periods of time without contact with the bed transported at a given cross-section. [Based on 'suspended sediment' in International Glossary of Hydrology (WMO-No. 385). 2012 edition.]

Comments:

1. “Rate of movement" implies velocity. Suggest replacing with 'Amount', Also, it's not clear what the difference is between suspended sediment discharge and suspended sediment load.
2. @jbianchi81 said "discharge should imply amount per unit time while load should imply concentration."

Amendment details

notation	path	name	description
12281	hydrological, liquidPhase, surface water	Suspended sediment discharge	Amount of suspended sediment (suspended by turbulence for considerable periods of time without contact with the bed) crossing a stream section per unit time. [Based on 'suspended sediment' in International Glossary of Hydrology (WMO-No. 385). 2012 edition.]

Comments

This code was proposed during FT2022-2 and received comments. Therefore, it was removed and should be discussed further.

Requestor(s)

Fulford, Janice M (USGS), William Bolhofer (NOAA)

Stakeholder(s)

National Hydrological Services, WHOS

Publication(s)

Example: Manual on Codes (WMO-No. 306), Volume I.3, WMO Codes Registry, Code table 1-01-05

Expected impact of change

LOW

Collaborators

@amilan17, @jbianchi81, @disiiwash, @jkorhonen, José Valles, Paolo Leoni, Joao Carlos Carvalho (JET-HYDMON)

References

No response

Validation

No response

[amilan17]

https://github.com/wmo-im/tt-wigosmd/wiki/2022.11.22-TT-WIGOSMD notes:

Hydrological editiing team will be working on this

[jbianchi81]

Maybe we could change 'rate of movement of ...' for 'amount of ... crossing a stream section per unit time'

[jbianchi81]

Updated proposal based on comments

[amilan17]

https://github.com/wmo-im/tt-wigosmd/wiki/2023.01.12-TT-WIGOSMD notes:
(Juan) coordinated with hydro experts; @jbianchi81 update proposal summary with stakeholders and reviewers and update branch

[amilan17]

@jbianchi81 if/when the branch is ready for my review, please open a PR to merge into the FT2023-1 branch