Measuring gravel transport and dispersion in a mountain river using passive radio tracers

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1034-1045

  Nathan Bradley, D ^a   Tucker, Gregory E ^b  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bedload transport; PIT tags; RFID; Stochastic models; Tracers

Indexed keywords

BED-LOAD TRANSPORT; COARSE GRAVEL; COLORADO , USA; COMPOUND POISSON DISTRIBUTION; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; MOUNTAIN RIVERS; NATURAL STREAMS; PASSIVE INTEGRATED TRANSPONDER; PIT TAGS; PUBLIC DOMAINS; RANDOM WALK MODELS; SEDIMENT GRAINS; SHORT DURATIONS; STEP LENGTH; STOCHASTIC TRANSPORT; STREAMBEDS; TRACER EXPERIMENT; US GOVERNMENT;

EXPERIMENTS; GRAVEL; MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

BEDLOAD; DISPERSION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GRAVEL; MOUNTAIN STREAM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POISSON RATIO; RANDOM WALK METHOD; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TRACER; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

COLORADO; HALFMOON CREEK; UNITED STATES;

MEDIALUNA CALIFORNIENSIS;

EID: 84864780103     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3223     Document Type: Article

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