Simulating changes to the sediment transport regime of the Waipaoa River, New Zealand, driven by climate change in the twenty-first century

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 67, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 153-166

  Gomez, B ^a   Cui, Y ^b   Kettner, A J ^c   Peacock, D H ^d   Syvitski, J P M ^c  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stillwater Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d DH Peacock Ltd   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

climate change; fluvial sediment transport; gravel bed river; numerical model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GRAVEL BED STREAM; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; RIVER FLOW; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

AUSTRALASIA; GISBORNE; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WAIPAOA RIVER;

EID: 67349105583     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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