A flow resistance model for assessing the impact of vegetation on flood routing mechanics

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Katul, Gabriel G ^a,b,c   Poggi, Davide ^c   Ridolfi, Luca ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; ANALYTICAL TREATMENT; BULK VELOCITY; CANOPY HEIGHTS; CANOPY TURBULENCE; EMPIRICAL DESIGN; FIELD STUDIES; FLOOD ROUTING; FLOW RESISTANCE; LEAF AREA; LENGTH SCALE; RESISTANCE FACTORS; SAINT VENANT EQUATION; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; VISCOUS EFFECT; WATER DEPTH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICS; MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VEGETATION; WATER LEVELS;

IMPACT RESISTANCE;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CANOPY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOOD; FLOW VELOCITY; HEIGHT; LEAF AREA; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER DEPTH; WATER LEVEL;

EID: 80052308923     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010278     Document Type: Article

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