Glacially induced organization of channel-reach morphology in mountain streams

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Brardinoni, Francesco ^a,b   Hassan, Marwan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FIELD METHOD; GIS; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; MOUNTAIN STREAM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POOL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SLOPE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 36248952087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JF000741     Document Type: Article

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