Nick Clifford
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British geographer and academic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nicholas John Clifford is a British geographer and academic. Education and career Clifford graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first-class geography BA and then completed a PGCE before undertaking doctoral studies there; his PhD was awarded in 1989 for his thesis "The formation, nature and maintenance of riffle-pool sequences in gravel-bedded rivers".
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Published Works
- Classics in physical geography revisited (1996) (389)
- Key Methods in Geography (2003) (257)
- Estimation of flow resistance in gravel‐bedded rivers: A physical explanation of the multiplier of roughness length (1992) (178)
- Understanding the influence of slope on the threshold of coarse grain motion: Revisiting critical stream power (2011) (97)
- Laboratory and field assessment of an infrared turbidity probe and its response to particle size and variation in suspended sediment concentration (1995) (92)
- Seed bank, seed dispersal and vegetation cover: Colonization along a newly-created river channel (2006) (90)
- The changing nature of river restoration (2014) (90)
- Classifying the hydraulic performance of riffle–pool bedforms for habitat assessment and river rehabilitation design (2003) (86)
- Physical habitat, eco-hydraulics and river design: a review and re-evaluation of some popular concepts and methods (2006) (84)
- Differential bed sedimentology and the maintenance of riffle-pool sequences (1993) (82)
- Fluvial geomorphology: structured beds in gravelly rivers (1991) (78)
- Formation of riffle—pool sequences: field evidence for an autogenetic process (1993) (76)
- The future of Geography: when the whole is less than the sum of its parts (2002) (73)
- Evaluating the role of invasive aquatic species as drivers of fine sediment-related river management problems: The case of the signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) (2011) (70)
- Initial Adjustments Within a New River Channel: Interactions Between Fluvial Processes, Colonizing Vegetation, and Bank Profile Development (2006) (68)
- Sedimentation–erosion dynamics of abandoned reclamations: the role of waves and tides (2000) (67)
- Geomorphological explanation of the long profile of the Lower Mississippi River (2007) (64)
- Invasive crayfish as drivers of fine sediment dynamics in rivers: field and laboratory evidence (2014) (61)
- Morphological changes of the Lower Mississippi River: geomorphological response to engineering intervention (2005) (59)
- Measurements of turbulence in the benthic boundary layer over a gravel bed and Comparison between acoustic measurements and predictions of the bedload transport of marine gravels (1991) (55)
- Microscale hydrodynamics and coherent flow structures in rivers: Implications for the characterization of physical habitat (2009) (53)
- The History of the Study of Landforms or the Development of Geomorphology: Quaternary and Recent Processes and Forms (1890-1965) and the Mid-century Revolutions (2008) (50)
- The influence of microform bed roughness elements on flow and sediment transport in gravel bed rivers: Comment on a paper by marwan A. Hassan and ian reid (1992) (48)
- Hydrodynamic modelling as a basis for explaining estuarine environmental dynamics: some computational and methodological issues (2000) (48)
- Identifying causes and controls of river bank erosion in a British upland catchment (2013) (47)
- Planform dynamics of the Lower Mississippi River (2006) (46)
- Characteristics and ‘event-structure’ of near-bed turbulence in a macrotidal saltmarsh channel (1992) (44)
- Scales of variation of suspended sediment concentration and turbidity in a glacial meltwater stream (1995) (44)
- The ‘dirty dozen’ of freshwater science: detecting then reconciling hydrological data biases and errors (2017) (43)
- Handbook of Geographical Knowledge (2011) (39)
- Science, systems and geomorphologies: why LESS may be more (2008) (39)
- Towards an ecologically meaningful classification of the flow biotope for river inventory, rehabilitation, design and appraisal purposes. (2008) (38)
- AUTOMATIC DELINEATION OF FUNCTIONAL RIVER REACH BOUNDARIES FOR RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS (2012) (32)
- Models in geography revisited (2008) (32)
- Current and Historical Sediment Loads in the Lower Mississippi River (2007) (31)
- Development of ST:REAM: a reach‐based stream power balance approach for predicting alluvial river channel adjustment (2015) (28)
- Hydrology: the changing paradigm (2002) (27)
- Assessment of hydrodynamic simulation results for eco‐hydraulic and eco‐hydrological applications: a spatial semivariance approach (2005) (27)
- Numerical Modeling of River Flow for Ecohydraulic Applications: Some Experiences with Velocity Characterization in Field and Simulated Data (2010) (24)
- Globalization: a Physical Geography perspective (2009) (21)
- Progress in Physical Geography: retrospect and prospect 2009—10 (2009) (21)
- The Nature of Explanation in Geomorphology (2011) (21)
- Three seedling emergence methods in soil seed bank studies: implications for interpretation of propagule deposition in riparian zones (2007) (18)
- Identifying and alleviating low flows in regulated rivers: the case of the rivers Bulbourne and Gade, Hertfordshire, UK. (2000) (17)
- CHARACTERISTICS AND CONTROLS OF GRAVEL‐BED RIFFLES: AN ANALYSES OF DATA FROM THE RIVER‐HABITAT SURVEY (2004) (16)
- River channel processes and forms (2008) (16)
- Key concepts in geography (2009) (15)
- Editorial: Physical geography – the naughty world revisited (2002) (14)
- Analysis of UK river restoration using broad‐scale data sets (2014) (14)
- Sustaining water-related ecosystems : the role of in-stream bedform design in river channel rehabilitation (2002) (14)
- Characterisation of river reaches: The influence of rock type (2008) (14)
- DAMP: A protocol for contextualising goodness-of-fit statistics in sediment-discharge data-driven modelling (2011) (13)
- River restoration: paradigms, paradoxes and the urban dimension (2007) (13)
- Downstream variation in bed material characteristics: a turbulence-controlled form-process feedback mechanism (1993) (13)
- Integrating network topology metrics into studies of catchment-level effects on river characteristics (2019) (11)
- Is Managing Ecosystem Services Necessary and Sufficient to Ensure Sustainable Development (2015) (9)
- A comparison of flow intensities in alluvial rivers: characteristics and implications for modelling flow processes (1998) (9)
- Experimental field assessment of suspended sediment pathways for characterizing hydraulic habitat (2010) (8)
- River Restoration: Widening Perspectives (2012) (8)
- The analysis of turbulence time series: Statistical and correlation approaches using the minitab package (1993) (7)
- Hydrological and Hydraulic Aspects of Restoration Uncertainty for Ecological Purposes (2008) (7)
- Sub-surface colluviation: An example from West Sussex, UK (1990) (6)
- Cartography and graphicacy (2003) (5)
- Variations in saturated and unsaturated water movement through an upland floodplain wetland, mid-Wales, UK (2010) (5)
- Control and independence strayegies for large geography classes (1994) (4)
- Approaches to Participation in Sustainable River Management (2011) (4)
- A Waterbody Typology Derived from Catchment Controls Using Self-Organising Maps (2019) (4)
- Abandoned reclamations as analogues for sea defence re-alignment (1999) (3)
- Discriminating between the roles of late Pleistocene palaeodischarge and geological‐topographic inheritance in fluvial longitudinal profile and channel development (2018) (3)
- IDENTIFYING THE TIME-SCALES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE (1996) (3)
- Distribution of biologically functional habitats within a lowland river, United Kingdom (2008) (3)
- The Handbook of Geomorphology (2011) (3)
- Dynamics of gravel‐bed rivers, edited by P. Billi, R. D. Hey, C. R. Thorne and P. Tacconi, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1992. No. of pages: xiv + 673. Price: £125.00. ISBN 0‐471‐92976‐X (1993) (2)
- Exploring the potential of numerical simulations of river velocities for eco-hydraulics and rehabilitation design: some experiences with the SSII-3D code. (2004) (2)
- Rivers and Drainage Basins (2011) (2)
- Retrospect and prospect reconsidered: The progress of Progress in Physical Geography (2019) (2)
- Writing essays, reports and dissertations (2010) (2)
- Realism in geomorphology (1997) (1)
- Wetlands: A threatened landscape: Michael Williams (Ed.) I. B. G. Special Publication 25 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. ix + 419. £70.00) (1992) (1)
- Integrating network topology metrics into studies of catchment-level effects on habitat diversity (2019) (1)
- Editorial: Promoting Geographical Enquiry (2018) (1)
- Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development (2015) (1)
- Water, engineering and landscape: Water control and landscape in the modern period: D. Cosgrove and G. Petts (Eds), (London: Belhaven Press, 1990. Pp. xv + 214. £30·00) (1992) (0)
- Abrahart, R.J. and Mount, Nick J. and Ab Ghani, Ngahzaifa and Clifford, Nicholas J. and Dawson, C.W. (2011) DAMP: a protocol for contextualising goodness- of-fit statistics in sediment-discharge data-driven (2016) (0)
- Book Review: Erosion and sedimentation (2000) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: ROUGH WATER MAN: ELWYN BLAKE'S COLORADO RIVER EXPEDITIONS by R. E. Westwood, University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada, 1992. No. of pages: xxi + 259. ISBN 0‐87417‐188‐1. (1996) (0)
- Special Issue: The future of geomorphology. (2010) (0)
- The scientific nature of geomorphology edited by Bruce L. Rhoads and Colin E. Thorn, John Wiley, Chichester 1996. No. of pages; xi + 481. Price: £ 65.00 (hb). ISBN 0-471-96811-0 (1999) (0)
- Dedication (2010) (0)
- Restoring Landform Geodiversity in Modified Rivers and Catchments (2014) (0)
- Neural network modelling of sediment-discharge relationships: Pictorial analysis of six computational methodologies applied to two rivers in Missouri (2009) (0)
- The Nature and Scope of Geomorphology (2011) (0)
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