Experimental evidence of dynamic scaling and indications of self-organized criticality in braided rivers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1983-1991

  Sapozhnikov, Victor B ^a   Foufoula Georgiou, Efi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIDED RIVER; DYNAMIC SCALING; SELF ORGANIZED CRITICALITY;

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY);

CRITICAL STATE; DYNAMIC SCALING; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICAL; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; SMALL CHANNELS; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIAL SCALING;

RIVERS;

EID: 0030849007     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97WR01233     Document Type: Article

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