Sediment of mobility and bedload transport conditions in an alpine stream

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1882-1891

  Mao, Luca ^a   Lenzi, Mario Aristide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bedload; Equal mobility; Scaled fractional transport; Sediment mobility; Size selective transport; Step pool channel

Indexed keywords

BEDLOAD TRANSPORT; SCALED FRACTIONAL TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT MOBILITY; SIZE-SELECTIVE TRANSPORT; STEP-POOL CHANNEL; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

FLOODS; FLOW OF WATER; SHEAR STRESS; STREAM FLOW;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

FLOODS; FLOW OF WATER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; STREAM FLOW;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BEDLOAD; DISCHARGE; DISPLACEMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

EID: 34447326413     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6372     Document Type: Article

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