Abstract
Understanding how river-channel processes aggregate at the watershed scale is becoming increasingly important for watershed managers. Here we describe a network-based framework for modeling sediment transport in a watershed that involves (1) decomposing the landscape into a connected network of elements including river channels, lakes, etc., (2) spatially and temporally distributing inputs of sediment according to a sediment budget, and (3) tracking these inputs through individual landscape elements via process-based time delays. The resulting bed-material sediment transport model described herein includes recurrent inputs informed by a sediment budget and also lake and in-channel storage with feedback between in-channel storage and channel slope. The model was used to simulate spatial and temporal bed-sediment depths on an entire river network at the watershed scale.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | River Flow - Proceedings of the International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, RIVER FLOW 2016 |
| Editors | George Constantinescu, Marcelo Garcia, Dan Hanes |
| Publisher | CRC Press/Balkema |
| Pages | 1311-1313 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781138029132 |
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| State | Published - 2016 |
| Event | International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, RIVER FLOW 2016 - St. Louis, United States Duration: Jul 11 2016 → Jul 14 2016 |
Publication series
| Name | River Flow - Proceedings of the International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, RIVER FLOW 2016 |
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Other
| Other | International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, RIVER FLOW 2016 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | St. Louis |
| Period | 7/11/16 → 7/14/16 |
Bibliographical note
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