Assessing a numerical cellular braided-stream model with a physical model

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 519-540

  Doeschl Wilson, Andrea B ^a,b   Ashmore, Peter E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Braided rivers; Cellular automata; Computational models; Fluvial processes

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

BRAIDING; MORPHODYNAMICS; MURRAY-PAOLA MODEL; NUMERICAL CELLULAR BRAIDED-STREAM MODEL;

RIVERS;

BRAIDED RIVER; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 19944410204     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1146     Document Type: Article

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