A thirteen-year record of bathymetric changes in the North Passage, Changjiang (Yangtze) estuary

Geomorphology

Volumn 187, Issue , 2013, Pages 101-107

  Dai, Zhijun ^a   Liu, James T ^b   Fu, Gui ^c   Xie, Hualiang ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Yangtze Estuary Waterway Administration Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

Bathymetric change; Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary; Dredging; Estuarine morphodynamics; River mouth shoal; Sediment discharge; Time series

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; DEPOSITION; DREDGING; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; MORPHODYNAMICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIME SERIES;

CHINA; HUBEI; THREE GORGES DAM; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

EID: 84875516672     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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