Measuring river velocities using GPS River Flow Tracers (GRiFTers)

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1315-1322

  Stockdale, R J ^a   McLelland, S J ^a   Middleton, R ^a   Coulthard, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flow patterns; GPS; River velocity; Velocity measurement

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VELOCITY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL METHODS; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS;

DISTRIBUTED REPRESENTATION; FLOW CONDITIONING; GPS; HIGH FLOW CONDITIONS; NATURAL RIVERS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; POINT MEASUREMENTS; RIVER FLOWS; RIVER VELOCITY; SURFACE FLOWS; TIME CONSUMING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

RIVERS;

DATA ACQUISITION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; FLOW VELOCITY; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER FLOW; TRACER; VELOCITY PROFILE;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH YORKSHIRE; SWALE RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 48549100057     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1614     Document Type: Article

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