Morphological changes on meander point bars associated with flow structure at different discharges

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 577-590

  Kasvi, Elina ^a   Vaaja, Matti ^b   Alho, Petteri ^a,b   Hyyppä, Hannu ^b,c   Hyyppä, Juha ^d   Kaartinen, Harri ^d   Kukko, Antero ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI METROPOLIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

^d FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

ADCP; Change detection; Fluvio morphology; Mobile laser scanning; Secondary circulation

Indexed keywords

ADCP; CHANGE DETECTION; FLUVIO-MORPHOLOGY; LASER SCANNING; SECONDARY CIRCULATION;

DEPOSITION; FILLING; FLOW SEPARATION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MORPHOLOGY;

FLOW STRUCTURE;

DISCHARGE; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE; LASER METHOD; MEANDER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STREAMFLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 84876487121     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3303     Document Type: Article

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