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Research article
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21 Feb 2020
Research article |
| 21 Feb 2020
| 21 Feb 2020
Estimating sand bed load in rivers by tracking dunes: a comparison of methods based on bed elevation time series
Kate C. P. Leary
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, USA
Daniel Buscombe
School of Earth & Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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