Reappraisal of sediment dynamics in the Lower Mekong River, Cambodia

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 1855-1865

  Lu, Xixi ^a,b   Kummu, Matti ^c   Oeurng, Chantha ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d Institute of Technology of Cambodia   (Cambodia)

Author keywords

Cambodia; Sediment dynamics; Suspended sediment; The mekong river; The tonle sap river

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

CAMBODIA; HYDROLOGICAL YEARS; MEKONG RIVER; SEDIMENT DYNAMIC; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT RATE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT FLUX; TONLE SAPS; UPSTREAM STATIONS;

RIVERS;

EID: 84911428254     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3573     Document Type: Article

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