ABSTRACT
Concentration of suspended sediment is of fundamental importance in environmental management, assessment of best management practices, water quality evaluation, reservoir ecosystem integrity, and fluvial hydraulics (Stewart et al., 1976a,b). Assuming time-averaged sediment concentration along a vertical as a random variable, this chapter discusses suspended sediment concentration profiles based on the Tsallis entropy and their analogy with a random walk model. The sediment concentration profiles so obtained are parsimonious as well as reasonably accurate.
