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The Plan

See comment on Stream power page also! These two will need merging.

I don't have time to do it right now, but my plan for this page below the intro stub goes:

Derivation

(i.e., restatement of the Whipple Tucker 1999/2002 type)

Detachment and Transport limited erosion

(emph. you can do the same thing assuming transport capacity, rather than erosion, goes as shear stress/USP)

Tests of the stream power law

(Stock and Montgomery, Van der Beek and Bishop, and the rest... Emphasising that it's hard to tell the differences without tight constraint. Also emphasise importance of transient response)

Problems and criticisms

1. Tuning the equations

(freedom to adjust; hard to know ahead of time what the values should be in many cases)

2. The problem of steady state

(Need to look at transient response, as many formulations pass the steady state test. Also, fact many of scaling relations only established for St St, so may fail in transient conditions - use e.g. of channel width scaling)

3. Non-process based formulation

(It's only empirical, there's very little process-based information to be had. Discuss new family of models briefly: Chatantavet (sp.?) & Parker 2009; Sklar & Dietrich 2004)

I'm also going to cross link to this page more thoroughly on other pages. Thoughts welcome?

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Please distinguish between these terms: Unit Stream Power, Specific Stream Power, Mean Annual Stream Power, etc.

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A few potential articles to review: Anderson & Anderson (2010) Geomorphology: The mechanics and chemistry of landscapes, Cambridge Univ Press, 637 pgs. Bagnold (1966) USGS Professional Paper 422-I Barker et al. (2009) Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 34 Brakenridge et al. (2005) EOS 86, p. 185-192 Brakenridge (2012) Technical summary, http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/SatelliteGaugingSites/technical.html Brierley & Fryirs (2005) Geomorphology and River Management, Blackwell Publishing, 398 pgs. Bull(1979) Burbank & Anderson (2012) Tectonic Geomorphology, Wiley-Blackwell, 454 pgs. Craddock et al. (2007) Journal of Geophysical Research 112 Collins & Bras (2010) Water Resources Research 46 Dartmouth Flood Observatory (Brakenridge, Director), http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu DeGroeve et al. (2010) Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk 1 Densmore et al. (2007) Transient landscapes at fault tips, Journal of Geophysical Research 112 Duvall et al. (2004) Journal of Geophysical Research 109 Ferencevic & Ashmore (2012) River Research and Applications 28 Flores et al. (2006) Water Resources Research 42 Fryirs & Brierley (2012) Geomorphic Analysis of River Systems: An Approach to Reading the Landscape, 362 pgs. Gilbert (1877) Henry Mts report Gasparini et al. (2006) Numerical modeling of non–steady-state..., p. 127-141, in GSA Special Paper 398 Howard & Kerby (1983) GSA Bulletin 94 Jain et al. (2006) Geomorphology 74 Jones (2002) Computers & Geoscience 28, p. 1051-1060 Khan et al. (2012) IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Letters 9 Kirby & Whipple (2001) Geology 29, p. 415-418 Korup, O. (2006) Geology 34, p. 45-48 Knighton (1999) Geomorphology 29 May & Lisle (2012) Journal of Geophysical Research 117 Norton, K.P., Abbuhl, L.M., Schlunegger, F. (2010) Geology 38, p. 655-658 Norton et al. (2010) Data Repository #2012175, ftp://rock.geosociety.org/pub/reposit/2010/2010175.pdf) Reinfelds et al. (2004) Sedimentology 40 Rossi et al. (2009), http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009AGUFMEP51B0604R RSG.TU (c. 2012) River Profile Analysis, http://www.rsg.tu-freiberg.de/twiki/bin/view/Main/RiverProfileAnalysis Safran et al. (2005) ESPL 30 Schumm & Lichty (1965) Seidl & Dietrich (1992) Catena Supplement 23 Shaban et al. (2009) Journal of Water Resource and Protection 4, p. 227-236 Sklar & Dietrich (2001) Geology 29 Snyder et al. (2000) GSA Bulletin 112 Stock et al. (2005) Tan et al. (2007) Hydrological Processes 21 Tarboton et al. (1989) Tarpanelli et al. (2012) EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 14, #3132 Tinkler, K.J. (1998) Rivers Over Rock, AGU Publishers, 323 pgs. USGS (1967) Mannings n Visual Reference (Roughness Characteristics of Natural Channels), WSP 1849 Whipple's notes on Stream Power & Erosion Whipple (2001) American Journal of Science 301 Whipple (2003) Annual Review of Earth & Planetary Science 32, p. 151-185 Whipple & Tucker (1999) Journal of Geophysical Research 104, p. 17,661-17,674 Whittaker (2012) How do landscapes record tectonics and climate? Lithosphere 4 Wobus et al. (2006) p. 55-74, in Willett et al. (editors), GSA Special Paper 398 XiaoFei et al. (2010) Chinese Science Bulletin 55 Zaprowski et al. (2005) Journal of Geophysical Research 110

..... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Northisle (talk • contribs) 13:16, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]