Gravel Bedload Transport Data from Goodwin Creek Impact Plates

Data from 30 flow events in the Goodwin Creek Experimental Watershed, Mississippi, USA, are presented. The dataset contains flow and gravel transport rates measured by two accelerometer-equipped stainless-steel impact plates installed in the channel bed. It was found that flow events typically produced clockwise transport rate hysteresis, indicating likely supply-limited conditions for gravel on the falling limbs of hydrographs.

Use Cases

• Assessing the impact of dam removal on river systems based on automated gravel transport measurements.
• Studying streambed ecology by analyzing temporal and spatial heterogeneity in bedload transport.
• Informing stream restoration and engineering design using data on transport rate hysteresis and supply-limited conditions.
• Validating automated measurement systems for gravel transport in remote or challenging field locations.

Strengths

• Contains data from 30 distinct flow events, providing a basis for analyzing transport patterns.
• Uses an automated measurement system (accelerometer-equipped impact plates) designed for challenging field conditions.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license, enabling unrestricted reuse.

Limitations

• Column names and a precise row count are not provided in the available metadata, limiting immediate understanding of the data structure.
• The temporal coverage of the 30 flow events is not specified, making it difficult to assess the dataset's time span.

Provenance

Source

Goodwin Creek Experimental Watershed near Batesville, Panola County, Mississippi, USA.

Collection Method

Data gathered using two accelerometer-equipped stainless-steel impact plates installed in the channel bed.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-03-20.

Geography

Goodwin Creek Experimental Watershed, Panola County, Mississippi, USA.