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Sediment Flux to the Sea as Influenced by Changing Human Activities and Precipitation: Example of the Yellow River, China

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  • XU JIONGXIN

    (Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijing 100101, China)

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Since the 1970s, the sediment flux of the Yellow River to the sea has shown a marked tendency to decrease, which is unfavorable for wetland protection and oil extraction in the Yellow River delta. Thus, an effort has been made to elucidate the relation between the sediment flux to the sea and the drainage basin factors including climate and human activities. The results show that the sediment flux to the sea responds to the changed precipitation in different ways for different runoff and sediment source areas in the drainage basin. If other factors are assumed to be constant, when the annual precipitation in the area between Longmen and Sanmenxia decreases by 10 mm, the sediment flux to the sea will decrease by 27.5 million t/yr; when the precipitation in the area between Hekouzhen and Longmen decreases by 10 mm, the sediment flux to the sea will decrease by 14.3 million t/yr; when the precipitation in the area above Lanzhou decreases by 10 mm, the sediment flux to the sea will decrease by 17.4 million t/yr. A multiple regression equation has been established between the sediment flux to the sea and the influencing factors, such as the area of land terracing and tree and grass planting, the area of the land created by the sediment trapped by check dams, the annual precipitation, and the annual quantity of water diversion by man. The equation may be used to estimate the change in the sediment flux to the sea when the influencing variables are further changed, to provide useful knowledge for the environmental planning of the Yellow River drainage basin and its delta.

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  • Xu Jiongxin, 2003. "Sediment Flux to the Sea as Influenced by Changing Human Activities and Precipitation: Example of the Yellow River, China," Environmental Management, Springer, vol. 31(3), pages 0328-0341, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:envman:v:31:y:2003:i:3:d:10.1007_s00267-002-2828-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s00267-002-2828-y
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