Hydrodynamics of a forced riffle pool in a gravel bed river: 1. Mean velocity and turbulence intensity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  MacVicar, B J ^a,b   Roy, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW PARAMETERS; GRAVEL BED RIVER; RIFFLE POOLS;

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SEDIMENTS; STREAM FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

HYDRODYNAMICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SEDIMENTS; STREAM FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FLOOD; FLOW VELOCITY; GRAVEL; HYDRODYNAMICS; POOL-RIFFLE SEQUENCE; RIFFLE; RIVER BED; SHEAR ZONE; THALWEG;

EID: 84865045685     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005272     Document Type: Article

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