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Nonlocal Sediment Transport on Steep Lateral Moraines, Eastern Sierra Nevada, California, USA

dc.contributor.authorDoane, Tyler H.
dc.contributor.authorFurbish, David Jon
dc.contributor.authorRoering, Joshua J.
dc.contributor.authorSchumer, Rina
dc.contributor.authorMorgan, Daniel J.
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-17T20:55:24Z
dc.date.available2017-11-17T20:55:24Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn0148-0227
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/8678
dc.descriptionAvailable for download is the author's version of the paper. The final, publisher's version is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017JF004325 The dataset DOI is https://doi.org/10.15695/vudata.cee.1
dc.description.abstractRecent work has highlighted the significance of long-distance particle motions in hillslope sediment transport. Such motions imply that the flux at a given hillslope position is appropriately described as a weighted function of surrounding conditions that influence motions reaching the given position. Although the idea of nonlocal sediment transport is well grounded in theory, limited field evidence has been provided. We test local and nonlocal formulations of the flux and compare their ability to reproduce land-surface profiles of steep moraines in California. We show that nonlocal and nonlinear models better reproduce evolved landsurface profiles, notably the amount of lowering and concavity near the moraine crest and the lengthening and straightening of the depositional apron. The analysis provides the first estimates of key parameters that set sediment entrainment rates and travel distances in nonlocal formulations, and highlights the importance of correctly specifying the entrainment rate when modeling land-surface evolution. Moraine evolution associated with nonlocal and nonlinear transport formulations, when described in terms of the evolution of the Fourier transform of the moraine surface, displays a distinct behavior involving growth of certain wavenumbers, in contrast to the decay of all wavenumbers associated with linear transport. Nonlinear and nonlocal formulations share key mathematical elements yielding a nonlinear relation between the flux and the land-surface slope.en_US
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dc.publisherJournal of Geophysical Researchen_US
dc.subjectNumerical Modelsen_US
dc.subjectLand-Surface Spectraen_US
dc.subject.lcshSediment transporten_US
dc.titleNonlocal Sediment Transport on Steep Lateral Moraines, Eastern Sierra Nevada, California, USAen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/2017JF004325


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