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The physics of debris flows — A conceptual assessment

Debris flows exhibit conspicuous dynamic interactions among their solid and fluid constituents. Key features of the interactions are neglected in traditional theories that treat debris flows as viscoplastic continua or as uniformly dispersed grain flows, but improved understanding of grain-grain and fluid-grain interactions has emerged from recent experimental and theoretical research. Grain-flow
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Richard M. Iverson, Roger P. Denlinger

Using AVHRR data to evaluate the greenness variability within monitoring polygons

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F. C. Westin, Donald O. Ohlen, D. G. Moore

A topographic base for GIS from automated TINs and image-processed DEMs

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Richard J. Pike, Gail P. Thelin, William Acevedo

Automated generation of shaded relief in aeronautical charts

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Donna K. Scholz, S. W. Doescher, R. A. Hoover

A model for tides and currents in the English Channel and southern North Sea

The amplitude and phase of 11 tidal constituents for the English Channel and southern North Sea are calculated using a frequency domain, finite element model. The governing equations - the shallow water equations - are modifed such that sea level is calculated using an elliptic equation of the Helmholz type followed by a back-calculation of velocity using the primitive momentum equations. Triangul
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Roy A. Walters

A rationale for considering the geographic information system database an asset

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Michael L. Sety, Kang-tsung Chang

ANALYSIS OF ESTUARINE TRACER-GAS TRANSPORT AND DESORPTION.

The riverine tracer-gas technique provides a direct, reach-averaged measure of gas exchange, is fairly simple to implement, and is widely accepted for determining reaeration-rate coefficients in rivers. The method, however, is not directly applicable to flows having vertical density gradients. Consequently, studies were undertaken to develop and evaluate methods for obtaining surface-exchange coef
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Jerad D. Bales, Edward R. Holley

Astoria Fan, a trench-filling elongate deep-sea fan

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C.H. Nelson, M. A. Hampton, H. A. Karl, J. H. Barber