Quadrant/octant sequencing and the role of coherent structures in bed load sediment entrainment

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 264-286

  Keylock, Christopher J ^a   Lane, Stuart N ^b   Richards, Keith S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bed load entrainment; Coherent Structures; Conditional Statistics; Quadrants; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

BEDLOAD; ENTRAINMENT; FLOW STRUCTURE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 84896501412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2012JF002698     Document Type: Article

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