Determining hydraulic resistance in gravel-bed rivers from the dynamics of their water surfaces

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1839-1848

  Cooper, James R ^a   Tait, Simon J ^b   Horoshenkov, Kirill V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary roughness; Grazing angle sound propagation; Hydraulic resistance; Water surface

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; REMOTE SENSING;

BOUNDARY ROUGHNESS; GRAVEL-BED RIVERS; GRAZING ANGLE SOUND PROPAGATION; HYDRAULIC RESISTANCE;

RIVERS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; GRAIN SIZE; GRAVEL BED STREAM; HYDRAULICS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BED; RIVER CHANNEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 33845891598     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1447     Document Type: Article

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