Suspended sediment distributions under regular breaking waves.

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In November and December 2013 experiments were conducted to find out what the effect of breaking waves is on the sediment transport processes. The research was conducted in the CIEM wave flume in Barcelona, where a beach with a slope of 1:10 was created. The beach consisted of medium sized sand ( = 0.246 mm) and the slope was established to create breaking waves. The waves with a height of 0.85 m and a period of 4 s broke at the top of the slope and 13 measurements of 10 minutes were taken. A suction sampling system was used to measure the concentrations. The suction sampling system consists of suction nozzles that are attached to a pump. With this pumps water and sediment are extracted at different elevations in the water column. The used instruments in this report were attached to the mobile frame that could move in the cross-shore and in the vertical direction. This way the position of the instruments could be changed per measurement. The measuring procedure and the changing conditi

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