SURFACE PROCESSES AND MORPHODYNAMICS

Journal articles

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*Cho, J and PA Nelson, 2024, Patterns of Alluviation in Mixed Bedrock-Alluvial Channels: 2. Controls on the Formation of Alluvial Patches, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 129(1), e2023JF007293, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007293

*Cho, J and PA Nelson, 2024, Patterns of Alluviation in Mixed Bedrock-Alluvial Channels: 1. Numerical Model, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 129(1), e2023JF007292, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007292

*White, DC, RR Morrison, and PA Nelson, 2023, Experimental observations of floodplain vegetation, bedforms, and sediment transport interactions in a meandering channel, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 128, e2023JF007136. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007136

*Gieschen, M and PA Nelson, 2023, Untangling the Effects of Seasonality and Post-Fire Stream Channel Erosion on the Hydrologic Response of a Burned Mountain Catchment, Hydrological Processes 37:e14968, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14968

*White, DC and PA Nelson, 2023, Flume investigation into mechanisms responsible for particle sorting in gravel-bed meandering channels, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, e2022JF006821, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JF006821

  • One of the top-downloaded articles among work published in an issue of Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface between 1st January 2022-31st December 2022, up to 12 months after publication.

*Scamardo, J, PA Nelson, M Nichols, and E Wohl, 2022, Modeling the relative morphodynamic influence of vegetation and large wood in a dryland ephemeral stream, Arizona, USA, Geomorphology, 417, 108444, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108444.

*Murphy, BM, KL Russell, S Mould, G Vietz, and PA Nelson, 2022, Managing urban riverscapes: An assessment framework to integrate social-ecological values and physical processes, Journal of Environmental Management, 322, 115862, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115862.

*Li, T, JG Venditti, CD Rennie, and PA Nelson, 2022, Bed and bank stress partitioning in bedrock rivers, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006360.

*Morgan, JA and PA Nelson, 2021, Experimental investigation of flow and sediment supply effects on riffle-pool sequences, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 46(4), 869-886, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5072.

Tullos, D, RH Hotchkiss, PA Nelson, and D Wegner, 2021, Sediment mismanagement puts reservoirs and ecosystems at risk, Eos, 14 April 2021, https://eos.org/opinions/sediment-mismanagement-puts-reservoirs-and-ecosystems-at-risk

*Timilsina, S, JD Niemann, SL Rathburn, FK Rengers, and PA Nelson, 2021, Modeling hydrologic processes and debris flow initiation during the September 2013 storm, Colorado Front Range, Landslides, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-020-04582-5.

Kampf, SK, BM Gannon, *C Wilson, *F Saavedra, ME Miller, A Heldmyer, B Livneh, P Nelson, and L MacDonald, 2020, PEMIP: Post-fire erosion model inter-comparison project, Journal of Environmental Management, 268, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110704.

*Morgan, JA and PA Nelson, Morphodynamic modeling of sediment pulse dynamics, 2019, Water Resources Research, 55, 8691-8707, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025407

*Brogan, DJ, PA Nelson, and LH MacDonald, 2019, Spatial and temporal patterns of sediment storage and erosion following a wildfire and extreme flood, Earth Surface Dynamics 7, 563-590, doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-563-2019.

*Brogan, DJ, LH MacDonald, PA Nelson, and JA Morgan, 2019, Geomorphic complexity and sensitivity in channels to fire and floods in mountain catchments, Geomorphology 337, 53-68, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.03.031.

Annandale, GW, TJ Randle, EJ Langendoen, RH Hotchkiss, and the United States National Reservoir Sedimentation and Sustainability Team (NRSST), 2018, Reservoir sedimentation management: A sustainable development challenge, Hydrolink, Number 3, 72-75.

Nelson, PA and *JA Morgan, 2018, Flume experiments on flow and sediment supply controls on gravel bedform dynamics, Geomorphology, 323, 98-105, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.09.011.

*Bankert, A and PA Nelson, 2017, Alternate bar dynamics in response to increases and decreases of sediment supply, Sedimentology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12399.

*Brogan DJ, PA Nelson, and LH MacDonald, 2017, Reconstructing extreme post-wildfire floods: a comparison of convective and mesoscale events, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4194.

*Stroth, TR, BP Bledsoe, and PA Nelson, 2017, Full spectrum analytical channel design with the Capacity/Supply Ratio (CSR), Water, 9(4), 271, doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/w9040271.

*Rosburg TT, PA Nelson, and BP Bledsoe, 2017, Effects of urbanization on flow-duration and stream flashiness: A case study of Puget Sound streams, Western Washington, USA, JAWRA: Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), 53(2), 493-507, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12511.

*Morgan JA, *DJ Brogan, and PA Nelson, 2017, Application of structure-from-motion in laboratory flumes, Geomorphology, 276, 125-143, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.10.021.

Cotrufo, MF, CM Boot, S Kampf, PA Nelson, *DJ Brogan, T Covino, ML Haddix, LH MacDonald, S Rathburn, S Ryan-Burkett, *S Schmeer, and E Hall, 2016, Redistribution of pyrogenic carbon from hillslopes to stream corridors following a large montane wildfire, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 30, 1348-1355, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GB005467.

Kampf, SK, *DJ Brogan, *S Schmeer, LH MacDonald, and PA Nelson, 2016, How do geomorphic effects of rainfall vary with storm type and spatial scale in a post-fire landscape? Geomorphology, 273, 39-51, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.08.001.

*Rosburg, TT, PA Nelson, *JS Sholtes, and BP Bledsoe, 2016, The effect of flow data resolution on sediment yield and channel design, Journal of Hydrology, 538, 429-439, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.04.040.

Fuller, TK, JG Venditti, PA Nelson, and WJ Palen, 2016, Modeling grain size adjustments in the downstream reach following run-of-river development, Water Resources Research, 52, 2770-2788, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017992.

Nelson, PA, RR McDonald, JM Nelson, and WE Dietrich, 2015, Coevolution of bed surface patchiness and channel morphology: 2. Numerical experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JF003429.

Nelson, PA, RR McDonald, JM Nelson, and WE Dietrich, 2015, Coevolution of bed surface patchiness and channel morphology: 1. Mechanisms of forced patch formation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JF003428.

Nelson, PA, *AK Brew, and *JA Morgan, 2015, Morphodynamic response of a variable-width channel to changes in sediment supply, Water Resources Research, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2014WR016806.

Nelson, PA, M Bolla Pittaluga, and G Seminara, 2014, Finite amplitude bars in mixed bedrock-alluvial channels, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JF002957.

Nelson, PA, D Bellugi, and WE Dietrich, 2014, Delineation of river bed-surface patches by clustering high-resolution spatial grain size data, Geomorphology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.06.008.

Venditti, JG, PA Nelson, JT Minear, J Wooster, and WE Dietrich, 2012, Alternate bar response to sediment supply termination, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, F02039, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JF002254.

Nelson, PA and G Seminara, 2012, A theoretical framework for the morphodynamics of bedrock channels, Geophysical Research Letters, L06408, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GL050806.

Nelson, PA and G Seminara, 2011, Modeling the evolution of bedrock channel shape with erosion from saltating bed load, Geophysical Research Letters, L17406, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GL048628.

Nelson, PA, WE Dietrich, and JG Venditti, 2010, Bed topography and the development of forced bed surface patches, Journal of Geophysical Research, F04024, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JF001747.

Venditti, JG, WE Dietrich, PA Nelson, MA Wydzga, J Fadde, and L Sklar, 2010, Effect of sediment pulse grain size on sediment transport rates and bed mobility in gravel bed rivers, Journal of Geophysical Research, F03039, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JF001418.

Venditti, JG, WE Dietrich, PA Nelson, MA Wydzga, J Fadde, and L Sklar, 2010, Mobilization of coarse surface layers in gravel-bedded rivers by finer gravel bedload, Water Resources Research, W07506, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2009WR008329.

Sklar, LS, J Fadde, JG Venditti, P Nelson, MA Wydzga, Y Cui, and WE Dietrich, 2009, Translation and dispersion of sediment pulses in flume experiments simulating gravel augmentation below dams, Water Resources Research, W08439, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2008WR007346.

Nelson, PA, JG Venditti, WE Dietrich, JW Kirchner, H Ikeda, F Iseya, and LS Sklar, 2009, Response of bed surface patchiness to reductions in sediment supply, Journal of Geophysical Research, F02005, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JF001144.

Nelson, PA, JA Smith, and AJ Miller, 2006, Evolution of channel morphology and hydrologic response in an urbanizing drainage basin, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 31: 1063-1079, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.1308.

Smith, JA, ML Baeck, KL Meierdiercks, PA Nelson, AJ Miller, and EJ Holland, 2005, Field studies of the storm event hydrologic response in an urbanizing watershed, Water Resources Research 41, W10413, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2004WR003712.

Smith, JA, AJ Miller, ML Baeck, PA Nelson, GT Fisher, and KL Meierdiercks, 2005, Extraordinary flood response of a small urban watershed to short-duration convective rainfall, Journal of Hydrometeorology 6: 599-617, doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM426.1.

Hicks, NS, JA Smith, AJ Miller, and PA Nelson, 2005, Catastrophic flooding from an orographic thunderstorm in the central Appalachians, Water Resources Research 41, W12428, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2005WR004129.

Datasets

Nelson, Peter; Cortese, David (Forthcoming 2024). Data produced and used in the paper: “Multi-scalar Response of an Experimental Fixed-wall Meandering Channel to a Sediment Supply Increase” [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2280gb5wc

Cho, Jongseok, & Nelson, Peter. (2023). Patterns of Alluviation in Mixed Bedrock-Alluvial Channels [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8357267

Gieschen, M. (2022). Skin Gulch Hydrograph Separation, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/b4a918d0417043bf9b317da48a266499

Book Chapters, Reports, Etc.

*Murphy, BM and PA Nelson, 2020, Urban stream assessment procedure: An integrative framework for assessing stream condition and the urban environment, River Flow 2020, Uijttewaal, W, MJ Franca, D Valero, V Chavarrias, CY Arbos, R Schielen, and A Crosato (eds), CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 2119-2127

LH MacDonald, *D Brogan, PA Nelson, and S Kampf, 2019, Fires and Floods: A Case Study of the Relative Magnitude and Persistence of Geomorphic Effects at the Watershed Scale, SEDHYD 2019, Reno, NV, 24-28 June.

Nelson, PA and N Tambroni, 2017, Indagini numeriche sulla morfodinamica delle barre alternate in canali in marea, in Atti dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti, D’Alpaos, L (ed), Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti, Venice, pp. 3-28. PDF

Venditti, JG, PA Nelson, RW Bradley, D Haught, and AB Gitto, 2017, Bedforms, structures, patches, and sediment supply in gravel-bed rivers, Gravel-Bed Rivers: Processes and Disasters, Tsutsumi, D and JB Laronne (Eds), John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 439-466. PDF

McDonald RR, JM Nelson, R Fosness, and PA Nelson, 2016, Field scale test of multi-dimensional flow and morphodynamic simulations used for restoration design analysis, River Flow 2016, Constantinescu, Garcia, and Hanes (Eds), Taylor and Francis Group, London, 1390-1398.

*Morgan JA and PA Nelson, 2016, Hydro- and morphodynamics of riffle-pool sequences in the middle Elwha River, Washington, USA, River Flow 2016, Constantinescu, Garcia, and Hanes (Eds), Taylor and Francis Group, London, 1212-1217. PDF

Bledsoe, BP, DW Baker, PA Nelson, *JS Sholtes, *TT Rosburg, and *T Stroth, 2016, Design hydrology for stream restoration and channel stability at stream crossings, Final Report for NCHRP Project 24-40. PDF

*Brew, AK, *JA Morgan, and PA Nelson, 2015, Bankfull width controls on riffle-pool morphology under conditions of increased sediment supply: field observations during the Elwha River Dam Removal Project, SEDHYD 2015, Reno, Nevada, 19-23 April. PDF

Venditti, JG, PA Nelson, and WE Dietrich, 2008, The domain of bedload sheets. In Parsons, D, T Garlan, and J Best (eds), Proceedings of Marine and River Dune Dynamics III, International Workshop, April 1-3 2008, University of Leeds, UK, 315-321. PDF

Clarke, J, M Bourke, P Nelson, M Manga, and J Fonseca, 2007, The Dalhousie mound spring complex as a guide to Martian landforms, processes, and exploration. In Mann, G (ed), Proceedings of the 7th Australian Mars Exploration Conference, Mars Society Australia, Clifton Hill, Victoria. PDF

Dietrich, WE, PA Nelson, E Yager, JG Venditti, MP Lamb, and L Collins, 2005, Sediment patches, sediment supply, and channel morphology. In Parker, G and MH Garcia (eds), River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics: RCEM 2005, 79-90. PDF