Sediment mobility and bed armoring in the St Clair River: Insights from hydrodynamic modeling

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 957-970

  Liu, Xiaofeng ^a   Parker, Gary ^b,c   Czuba, Jonathan A ^d   Oberg, Kevin ^d   Mier, Jose M ^b   Best, James L ^b,c   Parsons, Daniel R ^e   Ashmore, Peter ^f   Krishnappan, Bommanna G ^g   Garcia, Marcelo H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

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

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

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^g ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Armoring; Bathymetry; Field measurement; Gravel bed; Morphology; Numerical model; Sediment transport; St Clair River; Till erosion

Indexed keywords

ARMORING; BED ARMORING; BED SEDIMENTS; BED SHEAR STRESSS; BEDFORMS; CHANNEL BEND; CURRENT FLOWS; CURRENT RANGE; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; FIELD DATA; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FLOW CONDITION; FLOW DISCHARGES; GRAVEL BED; GREAT LAKES; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDRODYNAMIC MODELING; ICE COVER; LAKE ERIE; LAKE LEVELS; LOCAL SCOUR; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; NUMERICAL MODELING APPROACH; PROPELLER WAKES; RECENT TRENDS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; RIVER FLOW; SEDIMENT MOBILITY; SEDIMENT MOVEMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TWO DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELS; WATER CONVEYANCE;

BATHYMETRY; EROSION; FLOW OF WATER; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODELS; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; SHIP PROPULSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

LAKES;

BATHYMETRY; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DREDGING; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VELOCITY; ICE COVER; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LAKE LEVEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; SCOUR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE; LAKE HURON; LAKE MICHIGAN; SAINT CLAIR RIVER;

EID: 84863323237     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3215     Document Type: Article

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