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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-175-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-175-2026
Research article
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18 Feb 2026
Research article |  | 18 Feb 2026

New outdoor experimental river facility to study river dynamics

Basem M. M. Mahmoud, Emily Dickson, André Renault, Mélanie Trudel, Pascale M. Biron, Leonard S. Sklar, and Jay Lacey

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Herein, we introduce a new large outdoor river research facility to study how rivers change shape at near-real scales. Initial experiments on a straight channel resulted in little bank erosion even when the flow was perturbed by the placement of an in-channel artificial bar/pool. The results point to a narrow operational window for bar growth and bank mobility which informs on the initial conditions of future bank erosion experiments.
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