Testing bedload transport equations with consideration of time scales

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 774-789

  Recking, Alain ^a   Liébault, Frédéric ^a   Peteuil, Christophe ^b,c   Jolimet, Thomas ^a,d  

^a Cemagref   (France)

^b ONF   (France)

^c C Peteuil CNR   (France)

^d PFL ENAC IIC GEOLEP ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bedload; Modelling; Time scale

Indexed keywords

BED FORMS; BED LOAD; BED SURFACE; BED-LOAD TRANSPORT; DATA SETS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FLOW CONDITION; GRAVEL-BED RIVERS; INTERANNUAL; MODELLING; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PREDICTION INTERVAL; SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; STOCHASTICITY; THRESHOLD CONDITION; TIME-SCALES; UNIFORM SEDIMENTS;

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; FORECASTING; GRAVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

RIVERS;

BEDFORM; BEDLOAD; GRAVEL BED STREAM; HYSTERESIS; MEANDER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STOCHASTICITY; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84861934614     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3213     Document Type: Article

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