River deltas worldwide are currently under threat of drowning and destruction by sea-level rise, subsidence, and oceanic storms, highlighting the need to quantify their growth processes. Deltas are built through construction of sediment lobes, and emerging theories suggest that the size of delta lobes scales with backwater hydrodynamics, but these ideas are difficult to test on natural deltas that evolve slowly. We show results of the first laboratory delta built through successive deposition of lobes that maintain a constant size.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/experimental-river-delta-size-set-multiple-floods-and-backwater-hydrodynamics
[2] http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/5/e1501768.full.pdf+html
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/vamsi-ganti
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/austin-j-chadwick
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/hima-j-hassenruck-gudipati-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/science-advances
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rivers
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/floods
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hydrology
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/research
