Impact of the Three Gorges Dam water storage on the Yangtze River outflow into the East China Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Yan, Xiao Hai ^a,b   Jo, Young Heon ^a   Jiang, Lide ^a   Wan, Zhenwen ^b   Liu, W Timothy ^c   Li, Yan ^b   Zhan, Jiemin ^d   Du, Tao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DAMS; ESTUARIES; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COASTAL UPWELLING; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

FLOW OF WATER;

DAM; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MIXED LAYER; OUTFLOW; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UPWELLING; WATER STORAGE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUBEI; THREE GORGES DAM; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

EID: 43549096676     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032908     Document Type: Article

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