Inundation model as an aid for predicting ecological succession on newly-created deltaic land associated with Mississippi River diversions: Application to the wax lake delta

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2011: Bearing Knowledge for Sustainability - Proceedings of the 2011 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2340-2349

  Viparelli, E ^a   Shaw, J ^b   Bevington, A ^c   Meselhe, E ^d   Holm, G O ^c   Mohrig, D ^b   Twilley, R ^c   Parker, G ^a,e  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystems; Mississippi River; Numerical models

Indexed keywords

COASTAL RESTORATIONS; ENGINEERING TIME; FLOW DISCHARGES; GULF OF MEXICO; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODELS; ORGANIC SOIL; SALINITY VARIATIONS; TWO PARAMETER;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); ECOLOGY; LAKES; NUMERICAL METHODS; RIVERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURFACE WATER RESOURCES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

EID: 79960404791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41173(414)243     Document Type: Conference Paper

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