River bifurcations: Experimental observations on equilibrium configurations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Bertoldi, W ^a   Tubino, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUARTZ;

MORPHODYNAMICS; RIVER BIFURCATIONS;

RIVERS;

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUARTZ; RIVERS;

BEDFORM; BIFURCATION; DISCHARGE; EQUILIBRIUM; FLUME EXPERIMENT; GRAVEL BED STREAM; LABORATORY METHOD; MORPHODYNAMICS; RIVER FLOW;

EID: 36749033650     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR005907     Document Type: Article

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