Prediction of mountain stream morphology

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Wohl, Ellen ^a   Merritt, David ^a,b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTIONS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MORPHOLOGY; SET THEORY;

CHANNEL WIDTH; DATA SETS; MOUNTAIN STREAM; PLANE-BED REACHES;

STREAM FLOW;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; MOUNTAIN STREAM; POOL-RIFFLE SEQUENCE;

EID: 25844432263     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003779     Document Type: Article

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