Channel geometry ; Florida ; Fluvial processes ; Meander ; River bed ; Stream ; Stream flow ; United States of America ; Vegetation
This paper examines how bank roughness from vegetation influences the near-bank velocity and the secondary current in particular. Understanding this influence is important because these aspects of flow in a bend have a significant part in governing
morphology and associated riparian vegetation, is presented. An objective ranking scheme based on physical attributes extracted from the GIS data base permits the identification of the most unstable channel sites and, thereby, focuses attention on potentially