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Channel Sinuosity

Channel Sinuosity is a morphometric metric that quantifies the degree of meandering in a river channel by the ratio of the channel’s actual thalweg length to the straight-line axial length of the valley it traverses.

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Sinuosity Index

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96

Sinuosity of Alluvial Rivers on the Great Plains

Stanley A. Schumm · Geological Society of America Bulletin · 1963 · 657 citations

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Geomorphic controls on hyporheic exchange flow in mountain streams

Tamao Kasahara, Steven M. Wondzell · Water Resources Research · 2003 · 430 citations · Full text

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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HYDRAULIC AND TOPOGRAPHIC SINUOSITY INDEXES<sup>1</sup>

Jerry E. Mueller · Annals of the Association of American Geographers · 1968 · 375 citations

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Facies model for a sandy ephemeral stream and clay playa complex; the Middle Devonian Trentishoe Formation of North Devon, U.K.

I. P. Tunbridge · Sedimentology · 1984 · 263 citations

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Braiding and meandering parameters

P. F. Friend, Rajiv Sinha · Geological Society London Special Publications · 1993 · 240 citations

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Authors

227

  1. MB
    M. Bayani Cardenas

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    3 publications · 385 citations

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  2. MT
    Marco Tubino

    University of Trento, Italy

    2 publications · 176 citations

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  3. WD
    William D. McCaffrey

    University of Leeds, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 141 citations

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  4. SZ
    Sheliah Z. Seaberg

    University of Minnesota, United States

    2 publications · 189 citations

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  5. JP
    Jeff Peakall

    University of Leeds, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 141 citations

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Institutions

146

  1. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    734 citations

  2. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    790 citations

  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    147 citations

  4. Plymouth Marine Laboratory

    Plymouth, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    441 citations

  5. Cardiff University

    Cardiff, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    392 citations

  6. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    56 citations

  7. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    74 citations

  8. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    184 citations

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  1. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

    9 publications · 502 citations

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  2. Water Resources Research

    7 publications · 1.1K citations

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  3. Journal of Sedimentary Research

    JSR · 6 publications · 275 citations

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  4. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

    4 publications · 140 citations

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  5. Sedimentology

    4 publications · 508 citations

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