Reconstructing the early 19th-century Waal River by means of a 2D physics-based numerical model

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 3661-3675

  Arboleda, Alejandro Montes ^a   Crosato, Alessandra ^a,b   Middelkoop, Hans ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Floodplain sedimentation; River morphodynamic modelling; River reconstruction; River Waal; Vegetation roughness

Indexed keywords

EARLY 20; FIELD WORKS; FLOOD PLAINS; FLOODPLAIN SEDIMENTATION; FLOW DISCHARGES; HYDROGRAPHS; LONG-TERM EFFECTS; MEASURED DATA; MODELLING TOOLS; MORPHODYNAMIC MODELS; NETHERLANDS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHYSICS-BASED; SEDIMENT DYNAMIC; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); MAPPING; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; WATER LEVELS;

SEDIMENTATION;

FLOODPLAIN; LEVEE; MORPHODYNAMICS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER LEVEL;

NETHERLANDS; WAAL RIVER;

EID: 78649488577     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7804     Document Type: Article

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