How concave are river channels?

Mudd, Simon M.; Clubb, Fiona J.; Gailleton, Boris; Hurst, Martin D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-6-505-2018

Articles | Volume 6, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-6-505-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-6-505-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 6, issue 2

Research article

|

22 Jun 2018

Research article |

| 22 Jun 2018

How concave are river channels?

Simon M. Mudd, Fiona J. Clubb, Boris Gailleton, and Martin D. Hurst

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-6-505-2018-supplement

Data sets

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) 90 m NSF OpenTopography Facility https://doi.org/10.5069/G9445JDF

Model code and software

MuddPILE the Parsimonious Integrated Landscape Evolution Model S. M. Mudd, J. Jenkinson, D. A. Valters, and F. J. Clubb https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.997407

LSDtopotools/LSDTopoTools_ChiMudd2014: LSDTopoTools Chi Mapping Package (Version 1.11) S. M. Mudd, F. J. Clubb, B. Gailleton, M. D. Hurst, D. T. Milodowski, and D. A. Valters https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1291889

Short summary

Rivers can reveal information about erosion rates, tectonics, and climate. In order to make meaningful inferences about these influences, one must be able to compare headwaters to downstream parts of the river network. We describe new methods for normalizing river steepness for drainage area to better understand how rivers record erosion rates in eroding landscapes.