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Dr Fiona Clubb's Outputs (20)

Network‐Scale Dynamics of Alluvial Cover in a Mixed Bedrock‐Alluvial River (2025)
Journal Article
Oliveira Guirro, M., Hodge, R., Clubb, F., & Turnbull, L. (2025). Network‐Scale Dynamics of Alluvial Cover in a Mixed Bedrock‐Alluvial River. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 130(3), Article e2024JF007968. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024jf007968

Limited understanding of how sediment cover varies spatially in mixed bedrock‐alluvial river networks inhibits our comprehension of erosion processes in these systems. This study investigates the complex interactions between channel and sediment prop... Read More about Network‐Scale Dynamics of Alluvial Cover in a Mixed Bedrock‐Alluvial River.

An ancient river landscape preserved beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (2023)
Journal Article
Jamieson, S. S. R., Ross, N., Paxman, G. J. G., Clubb, F. J., Young, D. A., Yan, S., …Siegert, M. J. (2023). An ancient river landscape preserved beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 6507. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42152-2

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) has its origins ca. 34 million years ago. Since then, the impact of climate change and past fluctuations in the EAIS margin has been reflected in periods of extensive vs. restricted ice cover and the modification o... Read More about An ancient river landscape preserved beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Himalayan valley-floor widths controlled by tectonically-driven exhumation (2023)
Journal Article
Clubb, F. J., Mudd, S. M., Schildgen, T. F., van der Beek, P. A., Devrani, R., & Sinclair, H. D. (2023). Himalayan valley-floor widths controlled by tectonically-driven exhumation. Nature Geoscience, 16, 739–746. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01238-8

Himalayan rivers transport around a gigaton of sediment annually to ocean basins. Mountain valleys are an important component of this routing system: storage in these valleys acts to buffer climatic and tectonic signals recorded by downstream sedimen... Read More about Himalayan valley-floor widths controlled by tectonically-driven exhumation.

Continuous measurements of valley floor width in mountainous landscapes (2022)
Journal Article
Clubb, F. J., Weir, E. F., & Mudd, S. M. (2022). Continuous measurements of valley floor width in mountainous landscapes. Earth Surface Dynamics, 10(3), 437-456. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-10-437-2022

Mountainous landscapes often feature alluviated valleys that control both ecosystem diversity and the distribution of human populations. Alluviated, flat valley floors also play a key role in determining flood hazard in these landscapes. Various mech... Read More about Continuous measurements of valley floor width in mountainous landscapes.

Impact of changing concavity indices on channel steepness and divide migration metrics (2021)
Journal Article
Gailleton, B., Mudd, S. M., Clubb, F. J., Grieve, S. W., & Hurst, M. D. (2021). Impact of changing concavity indices on channel steepness and divide migration metrics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 126(10), Article e2020JF006060. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jf006060

The concavity index, urn:x-wiley:21699003:media:jgrf21424:jgrf21424-math-0001, describes how quickly river channel gradient declines downstream. It is used in calculations of normalized channel steepness index, urn:x-wiley:21699003:media:jgrf21424:jg... Read More about Impact of changing concavity indices on channel steepness and divide migration metrics.

Reproducible topographic analysis (2020)
Book Chapter
Grieve, S. W., Clubb, F. J., & Mudd, S. M. (2020). Reproducible topographic analysis. In P. Tarolli, & S. M. Mudd (Eds.), Remote sensing of geomorphology (339-367). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-444-64177-9.00012-6

The ability to reproduce the results of an experiment is a fundamental component of the scientific method. However, precisely what is meant by the terms replicable and reproducible often varies between and within disciplines. Here, we present clear d... Read More about Reproducible topographic analysis.

Differences in channel and hillslope geometry record a migrating uplift wave at the Mendocino Triple Junction (2019)
Journal Article
Clubb, F., Mudd, S., Hurst, M., & Grieve, S. (2020). Differences in channel and hillslope geometry record a migrating uplift wave at the Mendocino Triple Junction. Geology, 48(2), 184-188. https://doi.org/10.1130/g46939.1

Tectonic plate motion, and the resulting change in land surface elevation, has been shown to have a fundamental impact on landscape morphology. Changes to uplift rates can drive a response in fluvial channels, which then drives changes to hillslopes.... Read More about Differences in channel and hillslope geometry record a migrating uplift wave at the Mendocino Triple Junction.

Detection of channel-hillslope coupling along a tectonic gradient (2019)
Journal Article
Hurst, M. D., Grieve, S. W., Clubb, F. J., & Mudd, S. M. (2019). Detection of channel-hillslope coupling along a tectonic gradient. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 522, 30-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.06.018

Landscape morphology reflects the spatial and temporal history of erosion. Erosion in turn embodies the competition between tectonic and climatic processes. Quantitative analysis of topography can therefore reveal the driving tectonic conditions that... Read More about Detection of channel-hillslope coupling along a tectonic gradient.

Clustering River Profiles to Classify Geomorphic Domains (2019)
Journal Article
Clubb, F. J., Bookhagen, B., & Rheinwalt, A. (2019). Clustering River Profiles to Classify Geomorphic Domains. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124(6), 1417-1439. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jf005025

The structure and organization of river networks has been used for decades to investigate the influence of climate and tectonics on landscapes. The majority of these studies either analyze rivers in profile view by extracting channel steepness or cal... Read More about Clustering River Profiles to Classify Geomorphic Domains.

A segmentation approach for the reproducible extraction and quantification of knickpoints from river long profiles (2019)
Journal Article
Gailleton, B., Mudd, S. M., Clubb, F. J., Peifer, D., & Hurst, M. D. (2019). A segmentation approach for the reproducible extraction and quantification of knickpoints from river long profiles. Earth Surface Dynamics, 7(1), 211-230. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-211-2019

Changes in the steepness of river profiles or abrupt vertical steps (i.e. waterfalls) are thought to be indicative of changes in erosion rates, lithology or other factors that affect landscape evolution. These changes are referred to as knickpoints o... Read More about A segmentation approach for the reproducible extraction and quantification of knickpoints from river long profiles.

Unsupervised detection of salt marsh platforms: a topographic method (2018)
Journal Article
Goodwin, G. C., Mudd, S. M., & Clubb, F. J. (2018). Unsupervised detection of salt marsh platforms: a topographic method. Earth Surface Dynamics, 6(1), 239-255. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-6-239-2018

Salt marshes filter pollutants, protect coastlines against storm surges, and sequester carbon, yet are under threat from sea level rise and anthropogenic modification. The sustained existence of the salt marsh ecosystem depends on the topographic evo... Read More about Unsupervised detection of salt marsh platforms: a topographic method.

Geomorphometric delineation of floodplains and terraces from objectively defined topographic thresholds (2017)
Journal Article
Clubb, F. J., Mudd, S. M., Milodowski, D. T., Valters, D. A., Slater, L. J., Hurst, M. D., & Limaye, A. B. (2017). Geomorphometric delineation of floodplains and terraces from objectively defined topographic thresholds. Earth Surface Dynamics Discussions, 5, 369-385. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-2017-21

Floodplain and terrace features can provide information about current and past fluvial processes, including channel response to varying discharge and sediment flux, sediment storage, and the climatic or tectonic history of a catchment. Previous metho... Read More about Geomorphometric delineation of floodplains and terraces from objectively defined topographic thresholds.

The relationship between drainage density, erosion rate, and hilltop curvature: Implications for sediment transport processes (2016)
Journal Article
Clubb, F. J., Mudd, S. M., Attal, M., Milodowski, D. T., & Grieve, S. W. (2016). The relationship between drainage density, erosion rate, and hilltop curvature: Implications for sediment transport processes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 121(10), 1724-1745. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015jf003747

Drainage density is a fundamental landscape metric describing the extent of the fluvial network. We compare the relationship between drainage density (Dd) and erosion rate (E) using the Channel‐Hillslope Integrated Landscape Development (CHILD) numer... Read More about The relationship between drainage density, erosion rate, and hilltop curvature: Implications for sediment transport processes.

How does grid-resolution modulate the topographic expression of geomorphic processes? (2016)
Journal Article
Grieve, S. W., Mudd, S. M., Milodowski, D. T., Clubb, F. J., & Furbish, D. J. (2016). How does grid-resolution modulate the topographic expression of geomorphic processes?. Earth Surface Dynamics, 4(3), 627-653. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-4-627-2016

In many locations, our ability to study the processes which shape the Earth are greatly enhanced through the use of high-resolution digital topographic data. However, although the availability of such datasets has markedly increased in recent years,... Read More about How does grid-resolution modulate the topographic expression of geomorphic processes?.