📣 New paper: Quantifying river bed roughness.
💧Multiple metrics are required to fully describe river bed roughness.
💧River beds with differing features can be distinguished using roughness data.
💧Potential implications on flow resistance and sediment transport.
📖 doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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Quantifying Bed Surface Roughness in Bedrock and Boulder‐Bed Rivers
Using high-resolution river bed topography, surface roughness metrics are quantified across various spatial scales A comprehensive description river bed topographic variability requires the concu...
