Living landscapes: Muddy and vegetated floodplain effects on fluvial pattern in an incised river

The matlab data consists of 14 model runs (lab numbers in filenames), each for two timesteps in separate files, namely one for low river flow (ecological timestep 12, which is in month 6) and one for high river flow (ecological timestep 24, which is in month 12). The hydromorphological model is Delf3D, which is coupled to a riparian vegetation model 24 times per year for 150 years (some for 300 years). Each matlab file contains all variables stored by Delft3D and by the vegetation model. The most relevant variables are three-dimensional matrices containing the yearly maps. The various model runs are permutations on only sand, including mud (at various concentrations and erosion thresholds) and/or riparian vegetation.

Table: Model runs with lab number, number in the publication, and keyworks describing the model

lab run number
run number in Kleinhans et al. 2018
properties

153
4
only sand

149
3
mud added default concentration default erosion threshold

131
2
vegetation added

132
1
mud and vegetation

139
5
5 mg/L mud

140
6
50 mg/L

141
7
100 mg/L

162
8
500 mg/L

144
9
0.1 N/m2 critical shear stress

145
10
0.5 N/m2

161
12
500 mg/L 0.5 N/m2 vegetation

160
14
500 mg/L 0.5 N/m2

158
13
800 mg/L 0.5 N/m2 vegetation

159
11
100 mg/L 0.5 N/m2 vegetation

The open access paper describing the data and its method of production is:
Living landscapes: Muddy and vegetated floodplain effects on fluvial pattern in an incised river

Maarten G. Kleinhans, Bente de Vries, Lisanne Braat, Mijke van Oorschot
Earth Surf. Process. Landforms 43(14), 2018
https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4437

The modelling was conducted by Bente de Vries under supervision of Maarten Kleinhans as part of her MSc thesis research, which was embedded in the ERC Consolidator project of Kleinhans.