Multi-scale variability of flow discharge and sediment load of Yellow River to sea and its impacts on the estuary during the past 60 years

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 313-323

  Liu, Feng ^a   Chen, Shenliang ^a   Peng, Jun ^a   Chen, Guangquan ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Estuarine evolution; Flow discharge and sediment load; Multi scale variability; Wavelet analyses; Yellow River

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DISCHARGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PERIODICITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SILTATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SHANDONG; YELLOW RIVER; YELLOW RIVER ESTUARY; YELLOW SEA;

EID: 84861168494     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Walling D E. Human impact on land-ocean sediment transfer by the world's rivers. Geomorphology, 2006, 79: 192-216.
2. Walling D E, Fang D. Recent trends in the suspended sediment loads of the world's rivers. Global and Planetary Change, 2003, 39: 111-126.
3. Milliman J D, Farnsworth K L, Jones P D et al. Climatic and anthropogenic factors affecting river discharge to the global ocean, 1951-2000. Global and Planetary Change, 2008, 62: 187-194.
4. Fanos A M. The impact of human activities on the erosion and accretion of the Nile Delta coast. Journal of Coastal Research, 1995, 11(3): 821-833.
5. Carriquiry J D, Sanchez A. Sedimentation in the Colorado River delta and upper gulf of California after nearly a century of discharge loss. Marine Geology, 1999, 158: 125-145.
6. Mikhailova M V. Transformation of the Ebro River Delta under the impact of intense human-induced reduction of sediment and runoff. Water Resources, 2003, 30(4): 370-378.
7. Yang S L, Belkin I M, Belkina AI et al. Delta response to decline in the sediment supply from the Yangtze River. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2003, 57: 689-699.
8. Holligan P M. Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ), Science Plan. Global Change Report, 1993, 25: 150.
9. Pernetta J C, Milliman J D. Land-ocean interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ), Implementation Plan. Global Change Report, 1995, 33: 155.
10. Syvitski J P M, Vorosmarty C J, Kettner A J et al. Impact of humans on the flux of terrestrial sediment to the global coastal ocean. Science, 2005, 308(5720): 376-380.
11. Yang S L, Shi Z, Zhao H Y et al. Effects of human activities on the Yangtze River suspended sediment flux in to the estuary in the last century. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sc, 2004, 8: 1210-1216.
12. Qian Ning, Zhou Wenhao. Evolution of Riverbed in Lower Reaches of Yellow River. Beijing: Science Press, 1965.
13. Hu Chunhong, Zhang Zhihao. Evolution and control of estuary sandbar in Yellow River responding to variation of flow-sediment condition. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 2006, 37(5): 511-524.
14. Hu Chunhong, Chen Jianguo, Liu Dabin. Studies on the features of cross section's profile in lower Yellow River under the conditions of variable incoming water and sediment. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 2006, 37(11): 1283-1289.
15. Wang H J, Yang Z S, Saito Y et al. Interannual and seasonal variation of the Huanghe (Yellow River) water discharge over the past 50 years: Connections to impacts from ENSO events and dams. Global and Planetary Change, 2006, 50: 212-225.
16. Wang H J, Yang Z S, Saito Y et al. Stepwise decreases of the Huanghe (Yellow River) sediment load (1950-2005): Impacts of climate changes and human activities. Global and Planetary Change, 2007, 57(3/4): 331-354.
17. Wang H J, Bi N S, Satio Yoshiki et al. Recent changes in sediment delivery by the Huanghe (Yellow River) to the sea: Causes and environmental implications in its estuary. Journal of Hydrology, 2010, 391: 302-313.
18. Peng Jun, Chen Shenliang. The variation process of water and sediment and its effect on the Yellow River Delta over the six decades. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2009, 64(11): 1353-1362.
19. Peng Jun, Chen Shenliang, Dong Ping. Temporal variation of sediment load in the Yellow River basin, China, and its impacts on the lower reaches and the river delta. Catena, 2010, 83: 135-147.
20. ftp://www.coaps.fsu.edu/pub/JMA_SST_Index/.
21. Torrence C, Compo G P. A practical guide to wavelet analysis. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc, 1998, 79(1): 61-78.
22. Yuan L W, Yu Z Y, Xie Z R et al. ENSO signals and their spatial-temporal variation characteristics recorded by the sea-level changes in the northwest Pacific margin during 1965-2005. Science in China: Series D, 2009, 52(6): 869-882.
23. Grinsted A, Moore J C, Jevrejeva S. Application of the cross wavelet transform and wavelet coherence to geophysical time series. Nonlin. Proc. Geophys., 2004, 11: 561-566.
24. Yang Qingshu, Wu Chaoyu. Application of flow pass filtering to determination of secular trend in relative mean sea level change. Marine Science Bulletin, 1996, 15(1): 7-14.
25. Yang Qingshu, Shen Huanting, Liu Xincheng. Elimination of the influence of high frequency components on the determination of secular trends of sea level changes. Advances in Water Science, 1998, 9(4): 356-360.
26. Wang Wensheng, Ding Jing, Li Yueqing. Hydrology Wavelet Analysis. Beijing: Chemical Industry Press, 2005: 110-114.
27. Turgay Partal. Wavelet transform-based analysis of periodicities and trends of Sakarya basin (Turkey) streamflow data. River Research and Applications, 2010, 26(6): 695-711.
28. Yang Jianguo. Wavelet Analysis and Its Engineering Application. Beijing: China Machine Press, 2005: 147-176.
29. New M, Todd M, Hulme M et al. Precipitation measurements and trends in the twentieth century. International Journal of Climatology, 2001, 21: 1899-1922.
30. Wang Genxu, Shen Yongping, Liu Shiyin. On the characteristics of response of precipitation and runoff to the ENSO events in the source regions of the Yellow River. Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology, 2001, 23(1): 16-21.
31. Yin Y X, Xu Y P, Chen Y. Relationship between flood/drought disasters and ENSO from 1857 to 2003 in the Taihu Lake basin, China. Quaternary International, 2009, 208: 93-101.