Dynamic connectivity in a fluvial network for identifying hotspots of geomorphic change

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1401-1421

  Czuba, Jonathan A ^a   Foufoula Georgiou, Efi ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

cluster; connectivity; persistence; river network; sediment transport; synchronization

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS; SHEAR STRESS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

BRANCHING STRUCTURES; CHANNEL MIGRATION; CLUSTER; CONNECTIVITY; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; LAGRANGIAN TRANSPORT MODEL; PERSISTENCE; RIVER NETWORK;

RIVERS;

FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GEOACCUMULATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER FLOW; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STREAMFLOW; TOPOLOGY;

MINNESOTA; MINNESOTA BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85027923766     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016139     Document Type: Article

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