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The presence of suspended sediment in marine waters has several impacts, such as a degradation of the coastal ecosystem, pollution or a damaging effect on the tourism-oriented economies. FIELD_AC is a European project that aims to provide an improved operational service for coastal areas and generate added value for GMES predictions. This is achieved by the analysis of field cases. In this context, this minor thesis is based on the study of the information obtained in a field campaign carried out on Barcelona’s near shore between November of 2010 and January of 2011. The data studied in this minor thesis was acquired in two different deployments: A1 and A2, located at 24 m depth in front of the combined sewer overflow of Bogallet and in front of the Besós river mouth respectively. These deployments consisted of a concrete structure provided with an AWAC current profiler, able to measure current velocities and wave parameters, and two different SSC sensors: a turbidimeter and an optical backscatter. In the first place, a quality control of the measurements provided by the instruments is done i