A self-limiting bank erosion mechanism? Inferring temporal variations in bank form and skin drag from high resolution topographic data

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1600-1615

  Leyland, Julian ^a   Darby, Stephen E ^a   Teruggi, Liliana ^b   Rinaldi, Massimo ^b   Ostuni, Daniele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fluvial erosion; Form drag; Hydraulic roughness; Photogrammetry; Skin friction; Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS)

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); EROSION; FLOW VELOCITY; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; RIVERS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; SKIN FRICTION; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; SURVEYS;

BOUNDARY SHEAR STRESS; CRITICAL THRESHOLD; FLUVIAL EROSION; FORM DRAG; HYDRAULIC ROUGHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

DRAG;

BANK EROSION; BED ROUGHNESS; FLOW VELOCITY; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; RIVER BANK; SHEAR STRESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

CECINA;

EID: 84941938715     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3739     Document Type: Article

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