A network-based framework for identifying potential synchronizations and amplifications of sediment delivery in river basins

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 3826-3851

  Czuba, Jonathan A ^a   Foufoula Georgiou, Efi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

geomorphologic instantaneous unit sedimentograph; river network topology; sediment amplification; sediment resonance; sedimentological response; width function

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; GRAVEL; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; WATERSHEDS;

ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS; GEOMORPHOLOGIC INSTANTANEOUS UNIT SEDIMENTOGRAPH; NETWORK-BASED FRAMEWORK; RIVER NETWORK; SEDIMENTOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; WIDTH FUNCTION;

SEDIMENTS;

FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; RIVER BASIN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TIMESCALE; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

MINNESOTA; MINNESOTA BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84900373940     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014227     Document Type: Article

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