Sediment budgets

Abstract

Sediment budget analysis is useful in estuarine and coastal studies. A comprehensive understanding of the sediment source-to-sink transport and possible transport pathways within a system can be gained through a detailed budget analysis. Due to the complexities of sediment dynamics, much progress is still needed to reduce the uncertainty (e.g., improving the quality of field measurements and knowledge of sediment transport by multi-scale pro-cesses) for a better quantification of sediment budgets in coastal and estuarine environments.