Anisotropic scaling in braided rivers: An integrated theoretical framework and results from application to an experimental river

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 863-867

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIDED RIVER; SCALING;

ANISOTROPY;

DYNAMIC SCALING; INTEGRATED FRAMEWORKS; SELF AFFINITY; SPATIAL SCALING; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL PREDICTION; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

RIVERS;

EID: 0031947221     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR00216     Document Type: Article

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