New insight into river flows and sediment transport under ice cover
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 08:50
in Earth & Climate
The ice‐covered season plays an important role in the development of river channels, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. The spatial variability of sediment transport and differences in depositional and erosional locations increase in ice‐covered conditions. The greatest erosional forces are located in the shallow sections of the river in both open‐channel and ice‐covered conditions. However, ice cover narrowed the flow area. The findings were published in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.