A reduced-complexity model for river delta formation - Part 2: Assessment of the flow routing scheme

Earth Surface Dynamics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 87-104

  Liang, M ^a,b   Geleynse, N ^b,d   Edmonds, D A ^c   Passalacqua, P ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARCADIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; DELTA; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MORPHODYNAMICS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION;

EID: 84935850945     PISSN: 21966311     EISSN: 2196632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esurf-3-87-2015     Document Type: Article

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