A new quantitative test of geomorphic models, applied to a model of braided streams

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2579-2587

  Murray, A Brad ^a   Paola, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; MODEL; STATISTICS;

BRAIDED STREAM; FLUVIAL MODEL; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MODEL; SPATIAL PATTERN;

EID: 0029663146     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR00604     Document Type: Article

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