Suspended sediment load transport in the Mississippi River basin at St. Louis: Temporal scaling and nonlinear determinism

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 269-280

  Sivakumar, Bellie ^a   Chen, Ji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Correlation dimension; Mississippi River; Modeling; Nonlinear determinism; Phase space reconstruction; St. Louis; Suspended sediment load; Temporal scale

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOIL MECHANICS;

CORRELATION DIMENSION; NONLINEAR DETERMINISM; PHASE-SPACE RECONSTRUCTION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT LOAD; TEMPORAL SCALE;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL MECHANICS;

MODELING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MISSOURI; NORTH AMERICA; SAINT LOUIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847038823     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1392     Document Type: Article

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