In the Municipality of Kranjska Gora, measurements of the speed and flow of water on selected torrents (Martuljek, Mlinca, Pišnica, Sava Dolinka, and Triglavska Bistrica) were performed with the help of the FlowTracker2, the Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter. In 2020 and 2021, 482 water speed measurements at 7 measuring points were carried out in total. At each measuring point, the cross-section of the watercourse was divided into several sections (section width between 1/2 and 1/20 cross-section width) with measurements of water velocity in verticals between sections performed at 60% of water depth. The average measured water velocity in each vertical was 0.717 m/s while the highest was 1.881 m/s. Moreover, the lowest water flow was 0.300 m/s and the highest amounted to 1.153 m/s. The water flow was calculated using the speed-surface method, with values ranging from 0.113 m³/s to 2.591 m³/s. The relative error of the water flow rate relative to the number of verticals is between 0.2% and 75.1%, while the relative error of the water flow measurement ranges between 0.6% and 58.8%. The relative error of the measurements decreases with the increase in the number of sections or verticals. The required number of sections to make the relative measurement error below 5% in the case of water flow rate measurements is 7.1 while it amounts to 7.8 in the case of water flow.
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