FLOOD-PULSE AND RIVERSCAPE DYNAMICS IN A BRAIDED GLACIAL RIVER

Flood Pulse Dynamics of an Unregulated River Floodplain in the Southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain

Annual flooding in low-gradient rivers is recognized as an important subsidy between the river and its broad adjoining floodplains. Unfortunately, relatively few lowgradient rivers are unregulated and retain their natural "flood pulse" behavior in most developed regions of the world. Furthermore, attempts to quantify flood inundation dynamics of any river floodplain are scarce. We used aerial p...

Glacial surges and flood legends.

Applicability of the Flood-pulse Concept in a Temperate Floodplain River Ecosystem: Thermal and Temporal Components

Annual growth increments were calculated for blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) and flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) from the lower Mississippi River (LMR) to assess hypothesized relationships between fish growth and floodplain inundation as predicted by the Flood-Pulse Concept. Variation in catfish growth increment was high for all age classes of both species, and growth increments were n...

DTM and interpolations in GRASS: application to a braided river

The present work deals with the problems related to the generation of Digital Terrain Model (DTM) of braided rivers by means of the open source GIS GRASS. In particular, we investigated how to optimize the terrain survey, that is how to reduce the density of topographic points that we have to survey and which is their best distribution, related to the employed interpolation method and with resp...

Association between annual river flood pulse and paediatric hospital admissions in the Mekong Delta area.

The Mekong Delta is the most vulnerable region to extreme climate and hydrological conditions however the association between these conditions and children's health has been little studied. We examine the association between annual river flood pulse and paediatric hospital admissions in a Vietnam Mekong Delta city. Daily paediatric hospital admissions (PHA) were collected from the City Paediatr...