Effects of flow and vegetation states on river roughness coefficients

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2118-2123

  Ebrahmimi, N G ^a   Fathi Moghadam, M ^a   Kashefipour, S M ^a   Saneie, M ^b   Ebrahimi, K ^c  

^a SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ   (Iran)

^b SOIL CONSERVATION AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Density; Flexibility; Manning's coefficient; Vegetated rivers

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBILITY; MANNING ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENT; MANNING'S COEFFICIENTS; ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENT; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; VEGETATED RIVERS; VEGETATION CONDITION; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FLOW MEASUREMENT; RIVERS; SOIL CONSERVATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

VEGETATION;

EID: 46149104995     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2008.2118.2123     Document Type: Article

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