A simple global river bankfull width and depth database

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 7164-7168

  Andreadis, Konstantinos M ^a   Schumann, Guy J P ^a   Pavelsky, Tamlin ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

global rivers; hydraulic geometry

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HYDRAULIC GEOMETRY; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; MODEL CALIBRATION; RIVER FLOW ROUTING; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; GEOMETRY; HYDRAULIC MODELS; STREAM FLOW;

RIVERS;

DATA SET; DATABASE; GEOMETRY; LANDSAT; MODEL VALIDATION; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

OHIO RIVER; OREGON; UNITED STATES; WILLAMETTE RIVER;

EID: 84886059870     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20440     Document Type: Article

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