Network concepts to describe channel importance and change in multichannel systems: Test results for the Jamuna River, Bangladesh

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 766-778

  Marra, Wouter A ^a   Kleinhans, Maarten G ^a   Addink, Elisabeth A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Centrality; River channel network

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); FLOODS;

CENTRALITY; CHANNEL NETWORK; DISCHARGE CONDITIONS; INDIVIDUAL NETWORK; MULTICHANNEL SYSTEM; NETWORK MEASURES; RIVER CHANNELS; SEMIAUTOMATIC METHODS;

RIVERS;

BIFURCATION; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; NETWORK ANALYSIS; RIVER CHANNEL;

BANGLADESH; JAMUNA RIVER;

EID: 84898813378     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3482     Document Type: Article

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