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Sediment load determines the shape of rivers [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 SignificanceRivers carry and deposit sediment, thereby shaping most landscapes around us. In doing so, their malleable channels change shape to accommodate the sediment load. Here, we show how fluid stress, gravity, and the erratic trajectories of traveling grains combine together to determine the shape of a river. We find that the stress on the bed of
Popović, Predrag +3 more
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Sediment Load and Suspended Sediment Concentration Prediction [PDF]
Soil and Water Research, 2006 Sediment is a natural component of riverine environments and its presence in river systems is essential. However, in many ways and many places river systems and the landscape have been strongly affected by human activities which have destroyed naturally ...
Martin Bečvář
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Temporal variation of streamflow, sediment load and their relationship in the Yellow River basin, China. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Variation of streamflow and sediment load in the Yellow River basin has received considerable attention due to its drastic reduction during the past several decades.
Guangju Zhao +3 more
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Journal of Water and Climate Change, 2022 Assessment of long-term trends in stream flow and sediment load is important for adopting soil and water conservation measures and for predicting morphological changes in rivers. In the present study, detailed quantification of the nature of the trend in
Madhura Chetan Aher, Sanjay Yadav
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Estimation of Sediment Transport Rate of Karun River (Iran) [PDF]
Journal of Hydraulic Structures, 2016 Several types of sediment transport equations have been developed for estimation of the river sediment materials during the past decades. The estimated sediment from these equations is very different, especially when they applied for a specific river ...
Navideh Najafpour +3 more
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Journal of Water and Climate Change, 2021 Brahmaputra River Basin (BRB), the largest contributor of sediment load in Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna delta, is highly vulnerable to future climate change.
Shammi Haque +3 more
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 With years of vegetation restoration and check dam construction on the Loess Plateau, the sediment load of the middle reaches of the Yellow River have decreased sharply; however, the effects of check dam on this decrease of sediment load with such ...
Zeyu Zhang +9 more
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Multiple time scale analysis of sediment and runoff changes in the Lower Yellow River [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 2018 Sediment and runoff changes of seven hydrological stations along the Lower Yellow River (LYR) (Huayuankou Station, Jiahetan Station, Gaocun Station, Sunkou Station, Ai Shan Station, Qikou Station and Lijin Station) from 1980 to 2003 were alanyzed at ...
K. Chi, Z. Gang, B. Pang, Z. Huang
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ASSESSING SUSPENDED SEDIMENT YIELD IN THE SAF SAF GAUGED CATCHMENT, NORTHEASTERN ALGERIA [PDF]
Malaysian Journal of Geosciences, 2019 Many studies on sediment transport have been carried out on Algerian rivers but few studies have been undertaken in catchments of the Northeast of Algeria. The scarcity or discontinuity on sediment transport measurements reduces knowledge about soil loss.
K. Khanchoul, Z.A. Boukhrissa
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An Evaluation of various developing methods for sediment rating curve and computer simulationmodels for sediment load estimation in Mazandaran basin, Iran [PDF]
علوم و مهندسی آبیاری, 2017 A sediment curving rate is a method to describe the relationship between river discharge and suspended sediment load for a particular location. The rating curves have been used to predict sediment load by hydrologists for more than sixty years (Horowitz,
منوچهر حیدرپور +3 more
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