The Entropic Braiding Index (eBI): an effective channel count to characterize multi-thread river systems.

Alejandro Tejedor1, Jon Schwenk2, Maarten G Kleinhans3, Ajay B Limaye4, Lawrence M Vulis5, Paul A Carling6, Holger Kantz7 and Efi Foufoula-Georgiou1, (1)University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, United States, (3)Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (4)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States, (5)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (6)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (7)Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany