Origin of hysteresis in bed form response to unsteady flows

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1314-1333

  Martin, Raleigh L ^a   Jerolmack, Douglas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bed forms; hysteresis; rivers; sediment transport; transient processes

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; FORECASTING; MERGING; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIME MEASUREMENT;

ADDITIONAL EXPERIMENTS; BED FORMS; DISCHARGE REGIMES; FLUME EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY STUDIES; SIMPLE MODELING; TRANSIENT PROCESS; WATER DISCHARGES;

HYSTERESIS;

BEDFORM; FIELD SURVEY; FLOOD WAVE; FLUME EXPERIMENT; GROWTH RATE; HYSTERESIS; LABORATORY METHOD; RIVER BED; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIMESCALE; UNSTEADY FLOW;

EID: 84876718470     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20093     Document Type: Article

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