The shape of patterns to come: From initial formation to long-term evolution

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 62-70

  Murray, A Brad ^a   Goldstein, Evan B ^a   Coco, Giovanni ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS INSTITUTE IH CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Emergent phenomena; Non linear dynamics; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL MODELS;

EMERGENT PHENOMENON; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; PATTERN CHARACTERISTIC; PATTERN FORMATION; SIGNIFICANT PATTERNS; STATISTICALLY STEADY STATE;

PATTERN MATCHING;

AMPLITUDE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORMATION MECHANISM; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LABORATORY METHOD; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 84891658912     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3487     Document Type: Article

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