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Figure 5

From: Linking flow-stream variability to grain size distribution of suspended sediment from a satellite-based analysis of the Tiber River plume (Tyrrhenian Sea)

Figure 5

(a) Rrs(667) [sr−1] as a proxy for suspended sediment; (b) GSD Junge slope; (in situ) median particle diameter (D50) [m] of the GSD, after assuming a Junge slope with a minimum size of 3.9 µm and a maximum of 125 µm, for the 12 November 2012. The D50 [m] is analytically obtained by assuming a Junge-type GSD between the range 3.9–125 µm and it is zero out of this range. The three panels confirm that the proportion of smaller particles increases from river mouth to the open ocean and thus that coarser particles are more confined to the near-shore areas. Plots are generated by using MATLAB 7.1 http://uk.mathworks.com/products/matlab.

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