Horizontal and vertical self-organization of braided rivers toward a critical state

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 843-851

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARINE ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW;

SCALE (DEPOSITS); STATISTICAL METHODS; STREAM FLOW;

BRAIDED RIVERS; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICAL SYSTEMS;

RIVERS;

BRAIDED RIVER; CRITICAL STATE;

EID: 0033106321     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR02744     Document Type: Article

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