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Field investigations of the river bed morphology in the regulated channel of the Wilga River in Poland are presented. All data were collected with the use of an echo sounding system mounted on the ADCP (acoustic Doppler current profiler), which was also used to obtain the water flow velocities, discharges and river bathymetry during the days of measurements. It is shown that the analysed channel consists mostly of regular sand waves, which change their length and height during the winter season. The dependence of the shape of bedforms and channel bed morphology on the existence of a vegetation patch, which is directly associated with decreasing water temperature, is discussed briefly. The paper confirms changes in bed profiles with the increase in the water discharge. Moreover, a 3-dimensional digital elevation model of the channel obtained with the use of the ArcGIS software is introduced. In addition, the single-sided spectra of bed-elevation are analyzed. The results suggest that in the case of vegetation existing in the channel, the spectra are characterized by a scaling region with the exponent “−2”, which tends to be “−3” when the plants disappear.
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The study was supported by the Polish National Science Centre project “Field experimental investigation of hydrodynamics of water flow-vegetation-sediment interactions at the scale of individual aquatic plant” No. UMO-2014/13/D/ST10/01123 and within the project for Young Scientists No. 500-10-16 provided by the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences. Joanna Sziło gratefully acknowledges the financial support from the Interdisciplinary Polar Studies. Finally, the authors are very grateful to colleagues from the Institute of Geophysics: Mikołaj Karpiński, Bartłomiej Luks, Michał Pętlicki, Joanna Ćwiąkała and Magda Ścibor for their help in conducting the fieldwork.
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Sziło, J., Bialik, R.J. (2016). River-Bed Morphology Changes During the Winter Season in the Regulated Channel of the Wilga River, Poland. In: Rowiński, P., Marion, A. (eds) Hydrodynamic and Mass Transport at Freshwater Aquatic Interfaces. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27750-9_16
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