Flow resistance in steep mountain streams

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 2211-2240

  Reid, Donald E ^a   Hickin, Edward J ^b  

^a BC HYDRO   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flow resistance; Form roughness; Grain roughness; Mountain streams

Indexed keywords

BED MORPHOLOGY; BRITISH COLUMBIA; DATA SET; DRAINAGE AREA; FLOW RESISTANCE; GRAIN ROUGHNESS; MAIN RIVERS; MANNING'S N; MOUNTAIN STREAMS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POWER EQUATIONS; RESISTANCE FACTORS; RIVER STAGES; STREAM DISCHARGE; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TOTAL RESISTANCE;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOMORPHOLOGY;

RIVERS;

EID: 77949652472     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1682     Document Type: Article

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