Braided Rivers (eBook, PDF)

Process, Deposits, Ecology and Management
Redaktion: Sambrook Smith, Gregory H.; Petts, Geoffrey E.; Bristow, Charlie S.; Best, James L.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This important book brings together eighteen cutting-edge research papers first presented at the Second International Conference on Braided Rivers. It includes the latest research on the dynamics, deposits and ecology of these rivers.

• Essential reading for geomorphologists, earth scientists, engineers and ecologists with a pure and applied interest in the study, modelling and management of braided rivers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444304381
• Artikelnr.: 38308210

Autorenporträt

Gregory H. Sambrook Smith is a Lecturer at the University of Birmingham James L. Best is a Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Leeds Charlie S. Bristow is a Senior Lecturer of Sedimentology at the University College, London Geoff E. Petts is a Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Birmingham

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.
Braided Rivers: Where Have We Come in 10 Years? Progress and Future Needs
(Greg Sambrook Smith, Jim Best, Charlie Bristow and Geoff Petts).
Depositional Models of Braided Rivers (John S. Bridge and Ian A. Lunt).
A Sedimentological Model to Characterize Braided River Deposits for
Hydrogeological Applications (Peter Huggenberger and Christian Regli).
Scaling and Hierarchy in Braided Rivers and Their Deposits: Examples and
Implications for Reservoir Modelling (Sean Kelly).
Approaching the System-Scale Understanding of Braided River Behaviour
(Stuart N. Lane).
Cellular Modelling of Braided River Form and Process (A.P. Nicholas, R.
Thomas and T.A. Quine).
Numerical Modelling of Alternate Bars in Shallow Channels (A. Bernini, V.
Caleffi and A. Valiani).
Methods for Assessing Exploratory Computational Models of Braided Rivers
(Andrea B. Doeschl-Wilson, Peter E. Ashmore and Matt Davison).
Bed Load Transport in Braided Gravel-Bed Rivers (Christian Marti and Gian
Reto Bezzola).
Sediment Transport in a Microscale Braided Stream: From Grain Size to Reach
Size (P. Meunier and F. Métivier).
Morphological Analysis and Prediction of River Bifurcations (Guido Zolezzi,
Walter Bertoldi, Marco Tubino).
Braided River Management: From Assessment of River Behaviour to Improved
Sustainable Development (H. Piégay, Gordon Grant, Futoshi Nakamura and Noel
Trustrum).
Bank Protection and River Training Along the Braided Brahmaputra-Jamuna
River, Bangladesh (Erik Mosselman).
Morphological Response of the Brahmaputra-Padma-Lower Meghna River System
to the Assam Earthquake of 1950 (Maminul Haque Sarker and Colin R. Thorne).
Use of Remote-Sensing with Two-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Models to Assess
Impacts of Hydro-Operations on a Large, Braided, Gravel-Bed River: Waitaki
River, New Zealand (D. Murray Hicks, U.Shankar, M. J. Duncan, M. Rebuffé
and J. Aberle).
Effects of Human Impact on Braided River Morphology: Examples From Northern
Italy (Nicola Surian).
Ecology Of Braided Rivers (Klement Tockner, Achim Paetzold, Ute Karaus,
Cécile Claret and Jürg Zettel).
Riparian Tree Establishment on Gravel Bars: Interactions Between Plant
Growth Strategy and the Physical Environment (Robert A. Francis, Angela M.
Gurnell, Geoffrey E. Petts and Peter J. Edwards).
Index.