Morphodynamics of a 1000-year flood in the Kamp River, Austria, and impacts on floodplain morphology

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 654-682

  Hauer, Christoph ^a   Habersack, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

1000 year flood; Flow constriction expansion; Overbank scouring; River morphology

Indexed keywords

1000-YEAR FLOOD; AFFECTED AREA; AUSTRIA; BED ROCKS; CAUSE-EFFECT; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FLOOD-PLAINS; FLOODPLAIN MORPHOLOGY; FLOW CONSTRICTION-EXPANSION; HYDRAULIC CONDITIONS; LONGITUDINAL PROFILE; MATERIAL DEPOSITION; MORPHODYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OVERBANK SCOURING; RANDOM INTERVAL; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; RIVER BED; RIVER MORPHOLOGY; SCOUR HOLES; SHORT DISTANCES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EROSION; FLUID DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; STRIPPING (DYES);

RIVERS;

BANK EROSION; FLOOD; FLOODPLAIN; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERBANK FLOW; RIVER BED; RIVER DISCHARGE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; KAMP RIVER; LOWER AUSTRIA;

EID: 66149139297     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1763     Document Type: Article

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