Partial entrainment of gravel bars during floods

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 9-1-9-16

  Konrad, Christopher P ^a   Booth, Derek B ^b   Burges, Stephen J ^b   Montgomery, David R ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed material entrainment; Disturbance; Gravel bars; Sediment transport; Stochastic model

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; FLOODS; GRAVEL; RANDOM PROCESSES; SHEAR STRESS; STABILITY;

STANDARD DEVIATION;

WATER RESOURCES;

BEDLOAD; ENTRAINMENT; FLOOD; GRAVEL BED STREAM; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

EID: 0036661795     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr000828     Document Type: Article

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