Interactions between sediment delivery, channel change, climate change and flood risk in a temperate upland environment

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 429-446

  Lane, S N ^a   Tayefi, V ^b   Reid, S C ^c   Yu, D ^a   Hardy, R J ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Scott Wilson Group plc   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flood inundation; Flood risk mapping; Gravel bed rivers; Sediment delivery

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; RISK ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION;

FLOOD INUNDATION; FLOOD RISK MAPPING; GRAVEL-BED RIVERS; SEDIMENT DELIVERY; SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS;

FLOODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; RISK ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION;

CHANNEL CHANGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOOD; FLOODPLAIN; MAPPING; RIVER CHANNEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; UPLAND REGION;

EID: 33947524297     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1404     Document Type: Article

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