Hierarchy of models for meandering rivers and related morphodynamic processes

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Camporeale, Carlo ^a   Perona, P ^b   Porporato, A ^c   Ridolfi, Luca ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDDY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MEANDER; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 34249999002     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005RG000185     Document Type: Review

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