Impact of the Three-Gorges Dam and water transfer project on Changjiang floods

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 100, Issue , 2013, Pages 38-50

  Nakayama, Tadanobu ^a   Shankman, David ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Changjiang river; Eco hydrology model; Flood risk; Sedimentation; South to north water Transfer project; Three gorges dam

Indexed keywords

DRY BIOMASS; ECO-HYDROLOGY; FLOOD DISCHARGE; FLOOD RISKS; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTIONS; HYDROLOGIC CHANGES; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; LEVEE CONSTRUCTION; MONSOON RAINFALL; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; POYANG LAKE; SAND MINING; SATELLITE IMAGES; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; SOUTH TO NORTH WATER TRANSFER PROJECT; SUMMER MONSOON; WATER TRANSFER PROJECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMS; DEFORESTATION; FLOOD DAMAGE; GROUNDWATER; RIVERS; SEDIMENTATION;

LAKES;

BIOMASS; CATCHMENT; DEFORESTATION; FLOOD; FLOOD DAMAGE; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LEVEE; MINING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER DISCHARGE; SAND AND GRAVEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

CHINA; JIANGXI; POYANG LAKE; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84868314570     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.10.004     Document Type: Article

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