Estimating fluvial sediment transport: The rating parameters

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2747-2760

  Syvitski, James P ^a   Morehead, Mark D ^b   Bahr, David B ^a   Mulder, Thierry ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSPORT KINETICS; WATER FLOW;

CLIMATE EFFECT; RIVER CHANNEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

EID: 0033850180     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000WR900133     Document Type: Article

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