Effective Discharge for Overbank Sedimentation on an Embanked Floodplain along the River Waal, The Netherlands

Fluvial Sedimentology VI

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 59-69

  Asselman, N E M ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WL DELFT HYDRAULICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Effective discharge overbank sedimentation on embanked floodplain along River Waal, The Netherlands; Effective discharge results; Effective discharge for floodplain sedimentation; Flood magnitude; Modern fluvial environments; SEDIFLUX model developed by Middelkoop (1997) to determine sediment trapping efficiency curves; Sediment accumulation during floods of different magnitude

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

EFFECTIVE DISCHARGE; FLOOD MAGNITUDES; FLOODPLAIN SEDIMENTATION; MODERN FLUVIAL ENVIRONMENTS; OVERBANK SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEDIMENT TRAPPING;

FLOODS;

EID: 84946715932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444304213.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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