Geometric characteristics and evolution of a tidal channel network in experimental setting

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 739-752

  Vlaswinkel, Brigitte M ^a   Cantelli, Alessandro ^b  

^a Shell Upstream International   (Netherlands)

^b Shell Upstream Americas Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel geometry; Exponential distributions; Laboratory modeling; Spatio temporal dynamics; Tidal creeks

Indexed keywords

BED TOPOGRAPHY; CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS; CHANNEL GEOMETRY; CHANNEL NETWORK; CHANNEL WIDTHS; DIFFERENT TIME STEPS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DRAINAGE NETWORKS; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; HIGH RESOLUTION; LABORATORY STUDIES; LASER SYSTEMS; LINEAR CORRELATION; NETWORK CONFIGURATION; SCALE DEPENDENCE; SCALE-INVARIANT; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; TIDAL CHANNEL; TIDAL CREEKS;

GEOMETRY;

LABORATORIES;

COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; CORRELATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMETRY; LINEARITY; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; STREAM CHANNEL; TIDAL CHANNEL;

EID: 79955621486     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2099     Document Type: Article

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