Response of bed surface patchiness to reductions in sediment supply

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Nelson, Peter A ^a   Venditti, Jeremy G ^b   Dietrich, William E ^a   Kirchner, James W ^a,c,d   Ikeda, Hiroshi ^e   Iseya, Fujiko ^f   Sklar, Leonard S ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^f JOBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDLOAD; FLUME EXPERIMENT; GRAIN SIZE; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER BED; RIVER CHANNEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; SORTING; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EID: 70349775354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JF001144     Document Type: Article

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