Tracking multiple sediment cascades at the river network scale identifies controls and emerging patterns of sediment connectivity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 3941-3965

  Schmitt, Rafael J P ^a   Bizzi, Simone ^b   Castelletti, Andrea ^a,c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

river network scale; sediment cascades; sediment connectivity; sediment transport modeling

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION;

EMERGING PATTERNS; RIVER NETWORK; SEDIMENT CASCADES; SEDIMENT DELIVERY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MODEL; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; SUPPORT ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT CAPACITY;

SEDIMENTS;

CONNECTIVITY; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIVER SYSTEM; SCALE EFFECT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TOPOGRAPHY; TRACKING;

ASIA;

EID: 84971228976     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR018097     Document Type: Article

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