Calibration of an estuarine sediment transport model to sediment fluxes as an intermediate step for simulation of geomorphic evolution

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 148-158

  Ganju, Neil K ^a,b   Schoellhamer, David H ^a,b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Geomorphic change; Numerical modeling; San Francisco Bay; Sediment fluxes; Sediment transport

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER LEVEL; WATERSHED;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; SUISUN BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57749093583     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2007.09.005     Document Type: Article

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