Can the discharge of a hyperconcentrated flow be estimated from paleoflood evidence?

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Bodoque, Jose M ^a   Eguibar, Miguel A ^b   Díez Herrero, Andrés ^c   Gutiérrez Pérez, Ignacio ^d   Ruíz Villanueva, Virginia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^d Ferrovial Agroman   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL FLOW; CROSS SECTION; FLOOD EVENT; HYDRAULIC ANALYSIS; HYPERCONCENTRATED FLOW; ITERATIVE PROCESS; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; MOMENTUM EQUATION; PEAK DISCHARGE; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; SPECIFIC ENERGY; SUPERELEVATION; WETTED PERIMETERS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; ITERATIVE METHODS;

HYDRAULICS;

CALIBRATION; DISCHARGE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; HYDROSTATICS; MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOFLOOD; RECONSTRUCTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER DEPTH; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84855384170     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010380     Document Type: Article

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