SIGNUM: A Matlab, TIN-based landscape evolution model

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 293-303

  Refice, A ^a   Giachetta, E ^b   Capolongo, D ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Landscape evolution model; Matlab; Morphodynamics; TIN

Indexed keywords

FLUVIAL INCISION; HILLSLOPES; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; MATLAB ENVIRONMENT; MODULAR STRUCTURES; MORPHODYNAMICS; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN-SOURCE CODE; PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PLUG-INS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SIMULATION CODE; SPACE AND TIME; SURFACE EVOLUTION; USER NEED; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CLIMATE CHANGE; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); TIN; VISUALIZATION;

MATLAB;

ALGORITHM; BEDROCK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAULTING; HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; THRUST; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84863498057     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2011.11.013     Document Type: Article

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