%0 conference paper %@ %A Mueller, J.-M., Riethmueller, R., Onken, R. %D 2009 %J COASTAL ENGINEERING 2008, Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Coastal Engineering %P 1664-1670 %R doi:10.1142/9789814277426_0138 %T Multiple Time Scale Analysis of Suspended Sediment Concentration in the Wadden Sea %U https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814277426_0138 %X A frequency analysis was carried out on an 8-month high frequency data set of suspended particulate matter concentration (SPMC) measurements taken in a tidal inlet of the German Wadden Sea. It was found that about 50% of the variability in SPMC from March 2006 to October 2006 is due to tidal forcing. The non-tidally influenced dynamics in SPMC are well correlated but slightly delayed to wind speed time-series.