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• 2020

  Adjustment of self-formed bankfull channel geometry of meandering rivers: modelling study

  Naito, K. & Parker, G., Oct 1 2020, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 45, 13, p. 3313-3322 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • river
  • mathematics
  • geometry
  • modeling
  • hydrological regime

• Emplacement of massive deposits by sheet flow

  Hernandez-Moreira, R., Jafarinik, S., Sanders, S., Kendall, C. G. S. C., Parker, G. & Viparelli, E., Jun 1 2020, In: Sedimentology. 67, 4, p. 1951-1972 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • sheet flow
  • bedload
  • emplacement
  • transition
  • shield

• Entrainment and suspension of sand and gravel

  De Leeuw, J., P. Lamb, M., Parker, G., Moodie, A. J., Haught, D., G. Venditti, J. & Nittrouer, J. A., Jun 3 2020, In: Earth Surface Dynamics. 8, 2, p. 485-504 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • gravels
  • sediments
  • entrainment
  • sand and gravel
  • sands

• How canyons evolve by incision into bedrock: Rainbow Canyon, Death Valley National Park, United States

  Zhang, L., Li, T., Wang, G., Kwang, J. S., Nittrouer, J. A., Fu, X. & Parker, G., Jun 30 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117, 26, p. 14730-14737 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Recreational Parks
  • Head
  • Rivers
  • Climate

• Hydraulic resistance in mixed bedrock-alluvial meandering channels

  Fernández, R., Vitale, A. J., Parker, G. & García, M. H., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Hydraulic Research.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • bedrock
  • Hydraulics
  • hydraulics
  • Surface roughness
  • Sediments

• Morphodynamic equilibrium of lowland river systems during autoretreat

  Wu, C., Nittrouer, J. A., Muto, T., Naito, K. & Parker, G., Nov 1 2020, In: Geology. 48, 11, p. 1062-1066 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • backwater
  • morphodynamics
  • river system
  • hydrodynamics
  • progradation

• Mud in rivers transported as flocculated and suspended bed material

  Lamb, M. P., de Leeuw, J., Fischer, W. W., Moodie, A. J., Venditti, J. G., Nittrouer, J. A., Haught, D. & Parker, G., Aug 1 2020, In: Nature Geoscience. 13, 8, p. 566-570 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • mud
  • river
  • settling velocity
  • material
  • sand

• Response of the Minnesota River to Variant Sediment Loading

  Li, C., Viparelli, E. & Parker, G., Sep 1 2020, In: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 146, 9, 04020064.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Sediments
  • Rivers
  • Sand
  • morphodynamics
  • river

• The role of saltwater and waves in continental shelf formation with seaward migrating clinoform

  Iwasaki, T. & Parker, G., Jan 21 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117, 3, p. 1266-1273 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Rivers
  • Water
  • Seawater
  • Fresh Water
  • Oceans and Seas

• Universal relation with regime transition for sediment transport in fine-grained rivers

  Ma, H., Nittrouer, J. A., Wu, B., Lamb, M. P., Zhang, Y., Mohrig, D., Fu, X., Naito, K., Wang, Y., Moodie, A. J., Wang, G., Hu, C. & Parker, G., Jan 7 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117, 1, p. 171-176 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Rivers
  • Hospital Bed Capacity
  • Suspensions
  • Databases
• 2019

  Analytical Solution for Anomalous Diffusion of Bedload Tracers Gradually Undergoing Burial

  Wu, Z., Foufoula-Georgiou, E., Parker, G., Singh, A., Fu, X. & Wang, G., Jan 2019, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 124, 1, p. 21-37 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • bedload
  • tracer techniques
  • tracers
  • Advection
  • tracer

• Bankfull Shields number versus slope and grain size

  Czapiga, M. J., McElroy, B. & Parker, G., Nov 2 2019, In: Journal of Hydraulic Research. 57, 6, p. 760-769 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • shield
  • grain size
  • Hydraulics
  • hydraulics
  • geometry

• Bedrock-alluvial streams with knickpoint and plunge pool that migrate upstream with permanent form

  Zhang, L., Iwasaki, T., Li, T., Fu, X., Wang, G. & Parker, G., Dec 1 2019, In: Scientific reports. 9, 1, 6176.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Rivers
  • Water

• Can Bankfull Discharge and Bankfull Channel Characteristics of an Alluvial Meandering River be Cospecified From a Flow Duration Curve?

  Naito, K. & Parker, G., Oct 1 2019, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 124, 10, p. 2381-2401 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • rivers
  • floodplains
  • Rivers
  • floodplain
  • duration

• Can magic sand cause massive degradation of a gravel-bed river at the decadal scale? Shi‑ting River, China

  An, C., Parker, G., Hassan, M. A. & Fu, X., Feb 15 2019, In: Geomorphology. 327, p. 147-158 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • river bed
  • gravel
  • degradation
  • sand
  • river

• Do cutoffs on pristine meandering rivers tend to be more upstream-skewed than the main channel?

  Guo, X., Chen, D. & Parker, G., 2019, World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2019: Hydraulics, Waterways, and Water Distribution Systems Analysis - Selected Papers from the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2019. Scott, G. F. & Hamilton, W. (eds.). American Society of Civil Engineers, p. 221-228 8 p. (World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2019: Hydraulics, Waterways, and Water Distribution Systems Analysis - Selected Papers from the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2019).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • river
  • engineering work
  • meander
  • Landsat
  • world

• Emergent stationarity in Yellow River sediment transport and the underlying shift of dominance: From streamflow to vegetation

  Ye, S., Ran, Q., Fu, X., Hu, C., Wang, G., Parker, G., Chen, X. & Zhang, S., Jan 30 2019, In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 23, 1, p. 549-556 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • fluvial deposit
  • streamflow
  • sediment transport
  • vegetation
  • river basin

• Experiments on patterns of alluvial cover and bedrock erosion in a meandering channel

  Fernández, R., Parker, G. & Stark, C. P., Oct 9 2019, In: Earth Surface Dynamics. 7, 4, p. 949-968 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • bedrock
  • sediments
  • erosion
  • abrasion
  • sediment

• Extended Engelund–Hansen type sediment transport relation for mixtures based on the sand-silt-bed Lower Yellow River, China

  Naito, K., Ma, H., Nittrouer, J. A., Zhang, Y., Wu, B., Wang, Y., Fu, X. & Parker, G., Nov 2 2019, In: Journal of Hydraulic Research. 57, 6, p. 770-785 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Sediment transport
  • Silt
  • river bed
  • Rivers
  • sediment transport

• Extreme Memory of Initial Conditions in Numerical Landscape Evolution Models

  Kwang, J. S. & Parker, G., Jun 28 2019, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 46, 12, p. 6563-6573 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • landscape evolution
  • canyons
  • canyon
  • bears
  • preserve

• Flow directionality of pristine meandering rivers is embedded in the skewing of high-amplitude bends and neck cutoffs

  Guo, X., Chen, D. & Parker, G., 2019, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 47, p. 23448-23454 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Rivers
  • Neck
  • Direction compound

• Modeling Deltaic Lobe-Building Cycles and Channel Avulsions for the Yellow River Delta, China

  Moodie, A. J., Nittrouer, J. A., Ma, H., Carlson, B. N., Chadwick, A. J., Lamb, M. P. & Parker, G., Nov 1 2019, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 124, 11, p. 2438-2462 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Yellow River
  • avulsion
  • rivers
  • China
  • lobes

• Origin of a Preferential Avulsion Node on Lowland River Deltas

  Chadwick, A. J., Lamb, M. P., Moodie, A. J., Parker, G. & Nittrouer, J. A., Apr 28 2019, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 46, 8, p. 4267-4277 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • avulsion
  • rivers
  • backwater
  • sea level
  • lobes

• Roles of Bank Material in Setting Bankfull Hydraulic Geometry as Informed by the Selenga River Delta, Russia

  Dong, T. Y., Nittrouer, J. A., Czapiga, M. J., Ma, H., McElroy, B., Il'icheva, E., Pavlov, M., Chalov, S. & Parker, G., Jan 2019, In: Water Resources Research. 55, 1, p. 827-846 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • hydraulics
  • geometry
  • shield
  • river
  • sediment
• 2018

  Channel slope adjustment in reduced gravity environments and implications for Martian channels

  Konsoer, K. M., LeRoy, J., Burr, D., Parker, G., Jacobsen, R. & Turmel, D., Feb 1 2018, In: Geology. 46, 2, p. 183-186 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • gravity
  • hydraulics
  • geometry
  • submarine channel
  • paleochannel

• Hydrogeomorphological differentiation between floodplains and terraces

  Yan, Q., Iwasaki, T., Stumpf, A., Belmont, P., Parker, G. & Kumar, P., Jan 2018, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 43, 1, p. 218-228 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Floodplains
  • terrace
  • river
  • floodplain
  • valley

• Morphodynamic model of the lower Yellow River: Flux or entrainment form for sediment mass conservation?

  An, C., Moodie, A. J., Ma, H., Fu, X., Zhang, Y., Naito, K. & Parker, G., Nov 6 2018, In: Earth Surface Dynamics. 6, 4, p. 989-1010 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • rivers
  • sediments
  • morphodynamics
  • entrainment
  • conservation

• The 3D Numerical Study on Flow and Sediment Properties of a River with Grouped Spur Dikes

  Han, X., Lin, P. & Parker, G., Sep 5 2018, In: E3S Web of Conferences. 40, 05056.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review

  • Levees
  • sediment property
  • Sediments
  • Rivers
  • dike

• The Advective-Diffusive Morphodynamics of Mixed Bedrock-Alluvial Rivers Subjected to Spatiotemporally Varying Sediment Supply

  Zhang, L., Stark, C., Schumer, R., Kwang, J., Li, T., Fu, X., Wang, G. & Parker, G., Aug 2018, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 123, 8, p. 1731-1755 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • bedrock
  • rivers
  • Sediments
  • sediments
  • morphodynamics

• Turbidity Currents With Equilibrium Basal Driving Layers: A Mechanism for Long Runout

  Luchi, R., Balachandar, S., Seminara, G. & Parker, G., Feb 16 2018, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 45, 3, p. 1518-1526 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • turbidity
  • turbidity current
  • sediments
  • suspended sediment
  • beds

• Upper Mississippi River flow and sediment characteristics and their effect on a harbor siltation case

  Fernández, R., García, M. H. & Parker, G., Oct 1 2018, In: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 144, 10, 04018066.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • siltation
  • Sediments
  • Ports and harbors
  • river flow
  • Rivers
• 2017

  Effect of grain sorting on gravel bed river evolution subject to cycled hydrographs: Bed load sheets and breakdown of the hydrograph boundary layer

  An, C., Fu, X., Wang, G. & Parker, G., Aug 2017, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 122, 8, p. 1513-1533 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • hydrograph
  • river evolution
  • gravels
  • stream channels
  • rivers

• Effects of sand content on initial gravel motion in gravel-bed rivers

  Miwa, H. & Parker, G., Jul 2017, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 42, 9, p. 1355-1364 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • river bed
  • river
  • gravel
  • sand
  • shield

• Froude scaling limitations in modeling of turbidity currents

  Imran, J., Khan, S. M., Pirmez, C. & Parker, G., Feb 1 2017, In: Environmental Fluid Mechanics. 17, 1, p. 159-186 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Turbidity
  • turbidity current
  • scale effect
  • density current
  • Current density

• Gravel-bed river evolution in earthquake-prone regions subject to cycled hydrographs and repeated sediment pulses

  An, C., Cui, Y., Fu, X. & Parker, G., Nov 2017, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 42, 14, p. 2426-2438 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • river evolution
  • hydrograph
  • river
  • natural disaster
  • gravel

• Incisional cyclic steps of permanent form in mixed bedrock-alluvial rivers

  Izumi, N., Yokokawa, M. & Parker, G., Jan 1 2017, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 122, 1, p. 130-152 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • bedrock
  • rivers
  • Rivers
  • Water
  • Sediments

• Initiation of Channel Head Bifurcation by Overland Flow

  Pornprommin, A., Izumi, N. & Parker, G., Dec 2017, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 122, 12, p. 2348-2369 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • overland flow
  • bifurcation
  • Direction compound
  • Linear stability analysis
  • Bifurcation (mathematics)

• Landscape evolution models using the stream power incision model show unrealistic behavior when m/n equals 0.5

  Kwang, J. S. & Parker, G., Dec 6 2017, In: Earth Surface Dynamics. 5, 4, p. 807-820 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • landscape evolution
  • exponents
  • erodibility
  • hillslope
  • rivers

• Morphodynamics of a bedrock-alluvial meander bend that incises as it migrates outward: approximate solution of permanent form

  Inoue, T., Parker, G. & Stark, C. P., Jul 2017, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 42, 9, p. 1342-1354 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • morphodynamics
  • meander
  • bank
  • bedrock
  • migration

• Numerical simulation of large-scale bed load particle tracer advection-dispersion in rivers with free bars

  Iwasaki, T., Nelson, J., Shimizu, Y. & Parker, G., Apr 1 2017, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 122, 4, p. 847-874 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • advection
  • rivers
  • Advection
  • bedload
  • Rivers

• The exceptional sediment load of fine-grained dispersal systems: Example of the Yellow River, China

  Ma, H., Nittrouer, J. A., Naito, K., Fu, X., Zhang, Y., Moodie, A. J., Wang, Y., Wu, B. & Parker, G., May 2017, In: Science Advances. 3, 5, e1603114.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Rivers
  • Physics
• 2015

  Evolution of an anthropic source-to-sink system: Wabush Lake

  Turmel, D., Parker, G. & Locat, J., Dec 1 2015, In: Earth-Science Reviews. 151, p. 227-243 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • lake
  • tailings
  • bathymetric survey
  • depocenter
  • airborne survey

• Internal connectivity of meandering rivers: Statistical generalization of channel hydraulic geometry

  Czapiga, M. J., Smith, V. B., Nittrouer, J. A., Mohrig, D. & Parker, G., Sep 1 2015, In: Water Resources Research. 51, 9, p. 7485-7500 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • channel hydraulics
  • connectivity
  • geometry
  • vessel
  • river

• Macro-roughness model of bedrock-alluvial river morphodynamics

  Zhang, L., Parker, G., Stark, C. P., Inoue, T., Viparelli, E., Fu, X. & Izumi, N., Feb 11 2015, In: Earth Surface Dynamics. 3, 1, p. 113-138 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • bedrock
  • rivers
  • morphodynamics
  • roughness
  • alluvium

• Modeling flow and sediment transport dynamics in the lowermost Mississippi River, Louisiana, USA, with an upstream alluvial-bedrock transition and a downstream bedrock-alluvial transition: Implications for land building using engineered diversions

  Viparelli, E., Nittrouer, J. A. & Parker, G., Mar 1 2015, In: Journal of Geophysical Research F: Earth Surface. 120, 3, p. 534-563 30 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Mississippi River (US)
  • sediment transport
  • River diversion
  • Sediment transport
  • building land

• Morphological evolution of a well-constrained, subaerial–subaqueous source to sink system: Wabush lake

  Turmel, D. N. Q., Acques Locat, J. & Parker, G., 2015, In: Sedimentology. 62, 6, p. 1636-1664 29 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • lake
  • sediment wave
  • iron ore
  • tailings
  • bathymetric survey

• UNDERSTANDING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF RIVER VALLEY TOPOGRAPHY USING FLOOD MODEL

  YAN, Q., IWASAKI, T., KUMAR, P. V. T. C., PARKER, G., STUMPF, A., RHOADS, B. L. & Keefer, L. L., 2015.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other › peer-review

  • topography
  • valley
  • river
  • flooding
  • terrace

• Variable Shields number model for river bankfull geometry: Bankfull shear velocity is viscosity-dependent but grain size-independent

  Li, C., Czapiga, M. J., Eke, E. C., Viparelli, E. & Parker, G., Jan 2 2015, In: Journal of Hydraulic Research. 53, 1, p. 36-48 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Rivers
  • shield
  • Sediments
  • Viscosity
  • grain size
• 2014

  Aquatic interfaces: A hydrodynamic and ecological perspective

  Marion, A., Nikora, V., Puijalon, S., Bouma, T., Koll, K., Ballio, F., Tait, S., Zaramella, M., Sukhodolov, A., O'Hare, M., Wharton, G., Aberle, J., Tregnaghi, M., Davies, P., Nepf, H., Parker, G. & Statzner, B., Nov 2 2014, In: Journal of Hydraulic Research. 52, 6, p. 744-758 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  • Hydrodynamics
  • Biota
  • hydrodynamics
  • Pressure regulation
  • Surface waters

• A simplified approach to address turbulence modulation in turbidity currents as a response to slope breaks and loss of lateral confinement

  Cantero, M. I., Balachandar, S., Cantelli, A. & Parker, G., Apr 2014, In: Environmental Fluid Mechanics. 14, 2, p. 371-385 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Turbidity
  • turbidity current
  • Turbulence
  • Sediments
  • Modulation