Sediment discharge division at two tidally influenced river bifurcations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2119-2134

  Sassi, M G ^a   Hoitink, A J F ^a,b   Vermeulen, B ^a   Hidayat, H ^a,c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

ADCP; deltas; discharge division; river bifurcations; suspended load; tidal influence

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); DOPPLER EFFECT; FLOW VELOCITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SECONDARY FLOW; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; VELOCITY;

ADCP; DELTAS; RIVER BIFURCATION; SUSPENDED LOADS; TIDAL INFLUENCE;

RIVERS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; BACKSCATTER; BIFURCATION; FLOW VELOCITY; RIVER FLOW; ROUGHNESS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SETTLING VELOCITY; SHEAR FLOW; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TIDAL CYCLE;

EID: 84877952841     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20216     Document Type: Article

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