Numerical Predictions of the Sensitivity of Grain Size and Channel Slope to an Increase in Precipitation

River Confluences, Tributaries and the Fluvial Network

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 367-394

  Gasparini, Nicole M ^a   Bras, Rafael L ^b   Tucker, Gregory E ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion and sedimentation patterns; Example simulation of network evolution; Grain size sensitivity numerical predictions; Landscape evolution models; Network morphology CHILD model; SIBERIA model hillslope and channel processes; Slope area and surface texture area relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875121077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470760383.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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