Downstream change in river bank erosion rates in the Swale–Ouse system, northern England

Analysis of fundamental physical factors influencing channel bank erosion: results for contrasting catchments in England and Wales

“…Previous studies have observed annual channel bank retreat rates within the Exe catchment of 0.18-0.28 m yr -1 (Hooke 1980;Ashbridge 1995) and within the Ouse catchment of 0.067-0.377 m yr -1 (Lawler et al 1999). These are broadly comparable to the average annual retreat rates estimated within this study; Exe: 0.014-0.163 m yr -1 , Ouse: 0.026-0.229 m yr -1 (lower and upper estimates from methodologies with and without buffers, respectively).…”

Sediment loads and sources in heavily modified Irish catchments: A move towards informed management strategies

“…Indeed, annual bank erosion rates in the Bush (0.020 to 0.256 m per year) were in the high range of values found in other literature for similar sized catchments (e.g. Hooke, 1980;Bull, 1997;Lawler et al, 1999). For instance, Bull (1997) reported mean rates ranging from 0.001 to 0.0461 m yr − 1 in the upstream catchment of the River Severn (basin area 380 km 2 ).…”

“…Traditional direct monitoring, such as visual observations (Evans, 1980), erosion pin networks (e.g. Bull, 1997;Lawler et al, 1999) and sediment load measurements from different contributory catchments (e.g. Kronvang, 1992;House and Warwick, 1998) have all supplied useful spot measurements of sediment dynamics at a specific location.…”

Improving bank erosion modelling at catchment scale by incorporating temporal and spatial variability

“…As shown in Figure (A) this resulted in little variation of simulated bank erosion across the catchment. Significant spatial variation was observed from the GIS analysis within this study (Figure (C)), and has been observed within several additional UK catchments (Bull, ; Lawler et al, ). The inclusion of sinuosity within the enhanced model enables simulation of some spatial variability of bank erosion rates within the catchment (Figure (B)).…”