The effects of floodplain soil heterogeneity on meander planform shape

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Motta, D ^a   Abad, J D ^b   Langendoen, E J ^c   Garcia M H ^a  

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

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^c USDA ARS NATIONAL SEDIMENTATION LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANK EROSION; CENTERLINES; CRITICAL SHEAR STRESS; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; ERODIBILITY; FLOOD PLAINS; FLOODPLAIN SOILS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; GOVERNING PARAMETERS; LATERAL MIGRATION; MEANDER MIGRATION; MIGRATION RATES; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; PLANFORM; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; SHAPE COMPLEXITY; SPATIAL DENSITIES; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL SCALE; STANDARD DEVIATION; STOCHASTIC APPROACH; STREAM BANKS;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); EROSION; FLOODS; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; SHEAR STRESS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SOILS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

RIVERS;

BANK EROSION; FLOODPLAIN; FOUNDATION; HETEROGENEITY; MEANDER; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; SKEWNESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84866686845     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011601     Document Type: Article

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