The role of floodplain topography in deriving basin discharge using passive microwave remote sensing

S Kim, A Sharma - Water Resources Research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… First, TWI was the only topographic index considered in this study for identifying
discharge-sensitive locations and filtering out insensitive areas. However, the sensitivity of the …

[PDF][PDF] The hydrological role of floodplains within the drainage basin system

TP Burt - Buffer zones: their processes and potential in …, 1996 - repository.rothamsted.ac.uk
… This paper will consider the topographical and sedimentological controls of floodplain
There are numerous sub-basins and water may be discharged locally to the nearest topographic

Flooding dynamics on the lower Amazon floodplain: 1. Hydraulic controls on water elevation, inundation extent, and river‐floodplain discharge

CM Rudorff, JM Melack… - Water Resources Research, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… In this study, we analyzed the topographic and hydrologic controls of inundation dynamics
… boundaries of the flood basin referred to in this paper as the Curuai floodplain. Local upland …

Effects of the floodplain on river discharge into Lake Tana (Ethiopia)

M Dessie, NEC Verhoest, T Admasu, VRN Pauwels… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
… of the effects of topographical variation within the basin that are … of not accounting for
topography, we were obliged to restrict … of annual rainfall with topography for the basin was poor, …

A physically based description of floodplain inundation dynamics in a global river routing model

D Yamazaki, S Kanae, H Kim… - Water Resources Research, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… It calculates river and floodplain water storage, river discharge, … In section 3, we explain how
we defined those topographic … realistic in those basins, simulation of river discharge must be …

On river‐floodplain interaction and hydrograph skewness

AS Fleischmann, RCD Paiva… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… , catchment size and topographical characteristics such as slope … river-floodplain connections
from a stage or discharge hydrograph … of floodplain dynamics and its effects on the basin

Developing channel and floodplain dimensions with limited data: a case study in the Amazon Basin

RE Beighley, V Gummadi - Earth Surface Processes and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
discharge, bankfull depth, bankfull width, and floodplain width as a function of upstream
drainage area in the Amazon Basin … Relationships that incorporate local topography may …

Channel pattern and river-floodplain dynamics in forested mountain river systems

TJ Beechie, M Liermann, MM Pollock, S Baker… - Geomorphology, 2006 - Elsevier
… To limit the influence of local topography or other small… discharge domains of each channel
pattern, we constructed a simple stepwise model to predict channel pattern in six river basins

Numerical simulation of overbank processes in topographically complex floodplain environments

AP Nicholas, CA Mitchell - Hydrological Processes, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… and point measurements of floodplain flow depth and unit discharge. Modelled inundation
… overbank flows (eg relationships between floodplain topography and distributed flow depths, …

Hydrological connectivity of abandoned channel water bodies on a coastal plain river

JD Phillips - River Research and Applications, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… change on alluvial floodplains and the very subtle topographic differences (literally a … basins;
(iv) fill and drain, where the ACWB fills at high river discharge and returns flow as discharge