Physical context for theoretical approaches to sediment transport magnitude-frequency analysis in alluvial channels

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 7900-7914

  Sholtes, Joel ^a   Werbylo, Kevin ^a,b   Bledsoe, Brian ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b Headwaters Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

effective discharge; river channels; sediment transport

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION;

CLOSED-FORM EQUATIONS; CLOSED-FORM RELATIONS; EFFECTIVE DISCHARGE; INCREASING FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS (PDFS); RIVER CHANNELS; SEDIMENT ENTRAINMENTS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; ENTRAINMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MAGNITUDE; RIVER FLOW; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84911128136     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015639     Document Type: Article

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