Monitoring and predicting channel change in a free-evolving, small Alpine river: Ridanna Creek (North East Italy)

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2104-2119

  Luchi, Rossella ^a   Bertoldi, Walter ^a   Zolezzi, Guido ^a   Tubino, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Braiding; Channel adjustment; Field observations; Meandering channels; Time and spatial scales

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; HYDROLOGY; MONITORING; MORPHOLOGY;

BRAIDED MORPHOLOGY; INTENSIVE FIELD ACTIVITY; MORPHODYNAMICS;

RIVERS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; HYDROLOGY; MONITORING; MORPHOLOGY; RIVERS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; BRAIDED RIVER; CHANNEL CHANGE; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MEANDER; MORPHODYNAMICS; PREDICTION; RIVER CHANNEL;

BOLZANO; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; RIDANNA CREEK; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE;

EID: 37449004026     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1511     Document Type: Article

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