Evolution of the Yellow River Delta and its relationship with runoff and sediment load from 1983 to 2011

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 520, Issue , 2015, Pages 157-167

  Kong, Dongxian ^a   Miao, Chiyuan ^a,b   Borthwick, Alistair G L ^c   Duan, Qingyun ^a   Liu, Hao ^d   Sun, Qiaohong ^a   Ye, Aizhong ^a   Di, Zhenhua ^a   Gong, Wei ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YELLOW RIVER INSTITUTE OF HYDRAULIC RESEARCH   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Delta; Human activity; Yellow River

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; RUNOFF;

DELTA; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HYDROLOGICAL MONITORING STATIONS; NEW REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS; SEDIMENT CARRYING CAPACITY; STEPWISE MULTIPLE REGRESSION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT LOADS; YELLOW RIVER;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL EVOLUTION; DATA SET; HUMAN ACTIVITY; RUNOFF; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

CHINA; HENAN; SHANDONG; XIAOLANGDI RESERVOIR; YELLOW RIVER DELTA;

EID: 84913553998     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.09.038     Document Type: Article

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