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Laboratory experiments which use a series of truncated bores to understand the effects of steep water surface slope on gravel bed armor development. 

Experiments using simulated vegetation to understand how different vegetation densities (0-4% density by area) modify near-bed flow turbulence, flow structures and bedload transport.  Data include spatial variation in bedload fluxes around vegetation and total bedload fluxes measured using high-speed video for 12 runs.  Near-bed flow instantaneous velocities and velocity profiles (streamwise and vertical directions) were also measured in 3 streamwise transects using PIV. 

We designed a set of flume experiments with a simple, well-defined bed configuration to test our modified sediment transport equation. The experiments were conducted in a small (15 cm wide, 4.5 m long) flume set at a gradient of ten percent. This is the steepest gradient at which fluvial processes have been hypothesized to dominate over debris flow scour and deposition. At this gradient, the influence of the immobile grains on the flow and sediment transport will be relatively large. Thus our experiments should provide a test of sediment transport equations at the limit of their applicability. We maintained a constant slope in our experiments to enable comparisons between all experimental runs. The flume bed consisted of two layers of 30 mm immobile spheres: a closely packed bottom layer (λ/D of 1) and a top layer in which λ/D varied from 1 to 5 in the different runs. (Yager et al., 2007)

Data from the manuscript Sklar and Dietrich, Sediment and rock strength controls on river incision into bedrock, Geology, v. 29, no. 12, p. 1087-1090.