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2.1 River Systems

Course week(s) Week 2
Course subject(s) Water Systems

Welcome to the first lecture of the module Water systems. In the video below you will learn about River systems.

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Study Goals

After this lecture you will be able to understand:

  1. What is a river
  2. What does a river look like
  3. Variables
  4. Normal flow
  5. Bed forms
  6. Morphodynamic steady state
  7. Flood wave

Erreta

In the video at 13:26 the following formula is presented:

That formula is not correct, it should be:

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