Evaluating fine sediment mobilization and storage in a gravel-bed river using controlled reservoir releases

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 198-210

  Petticrew, Ellen L ^a,d   Krein, A ^b   Walling, D E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Public Research Centre Gabriel Lippmann   (Luxembourg)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial floods; Channel bed storage; Controlled release events; Fine sediment; Gravel bed rivers; Infiltration rates; Sediment mobilization; Sediment transport; Sediment traps

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW CONTROL; INFILTRATION; POROSITY; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRAPS;

FINE SEDIMENT; GRAVEL-BED RIVERS; SEDIMENT MOBILIZATION;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW CONTROL; INFILTRATION; POROSITY; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TRAPS;

CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW CONTROL; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VELOCITY; FROUDE NUMBER; GRAVEL BED STREAM; HYDROGRAPH; INFILTRATION; RESERVOIR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TRAP;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; RHINELAND-PALATINATE; TRIER;

EID: 33846426438     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6183     Document Type: Article

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