Impacts of the dam-orientated water-sediment regulation scheme on the lower reaches and delta of the Yellow River (Huanghe): A review

• Published in: Global and planetary change Vol. 157; pp. 93 - 113
• Main Authors: Wang, Houjie, Wu, Xiao, Bi, Naishuang, Li, Song, Yuan, Ping, Wang, Aimei, Syvitski, James P.M., Saito, Yoshiki, Yang, Zuosheng, Liu, Sumei, Nittrouer, Jeffrey
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.10.2017
• Subjects: anthropogenic activities; climate change; Coastal ecosystem; Delta morphology; ecosystems; engineering; estuaries; Human activity; humans; hydrologic cycle; loess; nutrients; pollutants; risk; river deltas; rivers; sediment transport; sediment yield; soil conservation; stream channels; subsidence; suspended sediment; The Yellow River; Water-sediment regulation; watersheds; Yellow River; Yellow River; Delta morphology; Human activity; Coastal ecosystem; Water-sediment regulation; The Yellow River

The water-sediment regulation scheme (WSRS), beginning in 2002, is an unprecedented engineering effort to manage the Yellow River with the aims to mitigate the siltation both in the lower river channel and within the Xiaolangdi Reservoir utilizing the dam-regulated flood water. Ten years after its i...