Episodic wood loading in a mountainous neotropical watershed

Geomorphology

Volumn 111, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 149-159

  Wohl, Ellen ^a   Ogden, Fred L ^b   Goode, Jaime ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Flood; Large woody debris; Logjam; Mountain river; Panama; Tropics

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; CATCHMENT; CHANNEL FLOW; FIELDWORK; FLOODING; HEADWATER; LANDSLIDE; STREAMWATER; TERRAIN; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATERSHED; WOODY DEBRIS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; CHAGRES RIVER; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 68949164937     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.04.013     Document Type: Article

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