Ballio, FrancescoPokrajac, DubravkaRadice, AlessioAbbas Hosseini Sadabadi, Seyed2018-08-262018-08-262018-02Ballio, F, Pokrajac, D, Radice, A & Abbas Hosseini Sadabadi, S 2018, 'Lagrangian and Eulerian Description of Bed Load Transport', Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, vol. 123, no. 2, pp. 384-408. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JF0040872169-9003ORCID: /0000-0002-4623-094X/work/43668045http://hdl.handle.net/2164/10979Acknowledgments The research reported in this paper was partially supported by the Research Executive Agency, through the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union, Support for Training and Career Development of Researchers (Marie Curie‐FP7‐PEOPLE‐2012‐ITN), which funded the Initial Training Network (ITN) HYTECH “Hydrodynamic Transport in Ecologically Critical Heterogeneous Interfaces”, N.316546. The second author was supported by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant EP/K013513/1). The authors wish to thank Andrea Marion and Andrea Bottacin Busolin for stimulating discussions on the definition framework, and John Buffington for handling the manuscript submission and for the extreme care put into the manuscript editing. Christophe Ancey, David Furbish, Joris Heyman, and PhD student Gauthier Rousseau provided thought‐provoking comments, thanks to which the manuscript was considerably improved. Data are available from the institutional web site of the Politecnico di Milano at http://intranet.dica.polimi.it/people/radice‐alessio/.25767488engsediment mechanicssediment transportLagrangianEuleriandefinitionsQE GeologyQEJournal article10.1002/2016JF0040871232