The continuous monitoring of bed load flux in various fluvial environments

IAHS-AISH Publication

Volumn , Issue 283, 2003, Pages 134-145

  Laronne, Jonathan B ^a   Alexandrov, Yulia ^a   Bergman, Nathaniel ^a   Cohen, Hai ^a   Garcia, Celso ^b   Habersack, Helmut ^c   Powell, D Mark ^d   Reid, Ian ^e  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bed load flux; Cessation of motion; Incipient motion; Sampling; Texture

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; RIVERS; TEXTURES;

BED LOAD FLUX; FLUVIAL ENVIRONMENTS;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

BEDLOAD; FLUVIAL PROCESS; MONITORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0442297464     PISSN: 01447815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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