New strategies for upscaling high-resolution flow and overbank sedimentation models to quantify floodplain sediment storage at the catchment scale

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 329, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 577-594

  Nicholas, A P ^a   Walling, D E ^a   Sweet, R J ^a   Fang, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catchment; Floodplain; Numerical model; Overbank sedimentation; Suspended sediment

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FLOW PATTERNS; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS;

FLOODPLAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERBANK SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

HYDROLOGY;

CATCHMENTS; FLOW PATTERNS; HYDRAULICS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS;

COMPLEXITY; FLOODPLAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; PARAMETERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTATION RATE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPSCALING;

CULM RIVER; DEVON; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33748940607     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.03.010     Document Type: Article

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