Modulation of outer bank erosion by slump blocks: Disentangling the protective and destructive role of failed material on the three-dimensional flow structure

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 10663-10670

  Hackney, Christopher ^a   Best, Jim ^b   Leyland, Julian ^a   Darby, Stephen E ^a   Parsons, Daniel ^c   Aalto, Rolf ^d   Nicholas, Andrew ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bank erosion; bank roughness; near bank flow field; slump blocks

Indexed keywords

EROSION; FLOW FIELDS; SHEAR STRESS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT; BANK EROSION; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; ROUGHNESS ELEMENTS; SLUMP BLOCKS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL FLOW FIELD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW STRUCTURE;

SHEAR FLOW;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; BANK EROSION; ECHO SOUNDER; EROSION RATE; FLOW FIELD; FLOW PATTERN; FLOW STRUCTURE; LASER METHOD; RIVER CHANNEL; SHEAR STRESS; SLUMPING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 84955191390     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066481     Document Type: Article

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