Corresponding relationship between suspended matter concentration and turbidity on Changjiang Estuary and adjacent sea area

Abstract

The first-stage storage of the San Xia Project started on the 1~(st) June,2003 and ended on the 10~(th) June. In order to investigate the influences of the San Xia Project on the Changjiang estuary and adjacent sea area environment, a cruise was carried out to synthetically study the environment and suspended matter distribution from the 15~(th) June,2003 to the 24~(th) June. In this papers, corresponding relationships between total suspended matter and turbidity in different water bodies are discussed based on recovered data so that much more characteristics of suspended matter distribution can be understood in terms of easily-obtained turbidity data. The factors affecting on the relationships and the scope of application of the relationship formulas are concerned as well. In results, fairly good relationships, logarithmically linear relationships, have been found between total suspended matter and turbidity in different water bodies.