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[[image: | [[image:Frontpage-Hstar1.png|200px|left|link=Model_highlight#Disentangling Rivers]] '''Disentangling Rivers'''<br>Explaining the morphology of large rivers is a notoriously difficult problem; existing theory fails to predict whether large river systems are meandering, anabranching or braiding. It turns out that physics-based modeling combined with rules for vegetation and floodplain evolution capture river morphology remarkably accurately. Prof. Andrew Nicolas of Exeter University, UK, recently reported results of the HSTAR model showing river channel and bar migration to vary with both sediment characteristics and transport dynamics and with floodplain sedimentation. <br>[[Model_highlight#Disentangling Rivers|More...]]<br><br>[mailto:csdmsweb@colorado.edu Nominate a model] | ||
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Disentangling Rivers
Explaining the morphology of large rivers is a notoriously difficult problem; existing theory fails to predict whether large river systems are meandering, anabranching or braiding. It turns out that physics-based modeling combined with rules for vegetation and floodplain evolution capture river morphology remarkably accurately. Prof. Andrew Nicolas of Exeter University, UK, recently reported results of the HSTAR model showing river channel and bar migration to vary with both sediment characteristics and transport dynamics and with floodplain sedimentation.
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