Extreme hydrologic banding in a large-river Floodplain, California, U.S.A.

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 598, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 409-415

  Sommer, Ted R ^a   Harrell, William C ^a   Swift, Theodore J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Floodplain; Hydrologic banding; Sacramento River; San Francisco Estuary; Transport and mixing; Yolo Bypass

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; FISH;

FLOODPLAIN; HYDROLOGIC BANDING; MIGRATION CORRIDORS; SACRAMENTO RIVER; SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY; YOLO BYPASS;

HYDROLOGY;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; BYPASS; FLOODPLAIN; FLOW PATTERN; MIXING; RIVER PLUME; TOPOGRAPHY; TRIBUTARY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SACRAMENTO RIVER; SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY; UNITED STATES; YOLO BYPASS;

EID: 37549037798     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-007-9159-1     Document Type: Article

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