Morphodynamics: Rivers beyond steady state

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1883-1897

  Church, M ^a   Ferguson, R I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alluvial channels; bed material transport; fluvial geomorphology; morphodynamics; rivers

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS;

ALLUVIAL CHANNELS; BED MATERIAL TRANSPORTS; EQUILIBRIUM CONFIGURATION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; MORPHODYNAMICS; NEWTONIAN MECHANICS; PHYSICS-BASED MODELING; RIPARIAN VEGETATION;

RIVERS;

FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; MORPHODYNAMICS; NEWTONIAN FLUID; RIVER CHANNEL; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; WATER FLOW;

EID: 85027930088     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016862     Document Type: Article

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