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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-3563-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-3563-2025
Research article
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22 Dec 2025
Research article |  | 22 Dec 2025

Tracing suspended sediment fluxes using a glider: observations in a tidal shelf environment

Sabrina Homrani, Orens Pasqueron de Fommervault, Mathieu Gentil, Frédéric Jourdin, Xavier Durrieu de Madron, and François Bourrin

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This article demonstrates that gliders equipped with current profilers and optical turbidity sensors are able to measure, with an acceptable accuracy of round 33 % (median of relative errors), the transport fluxes of suspended particulate matter flowing through the water column, in a tidal shelf sea (providing calibration of turbidity sensors). These results highlight the potential of gliders for quantifying sediment fluxes and advancing our understanding of coastal hydro-sedimentary processes.
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