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3 GORGES DAM; TEMPORAL VARIATION; YELLOW-RIVER; DELTA; SEA; FLUX; CHANGJIANG; CHINA; EVOLUTION; HOLOCENE
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Decline Of Yangtze River Water And Sediment Discharge: Impact From Natural And Anthropogenic Changes, S. L. Yang, K. H. Xu, J. D. Milliman, H.F. Yang, C.S. Wu
Decline Of Yangtze River Water And Sediment Discharge: Impact From Natural And Anthropogenic Changes, S. L. Yang, K. H. Xu, J. D. Milliman, H.F. Yang, C.S. Wu
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The increasing impact of both climatic change and human activities on global river systems necessitates an increasing need to identify and quantify the various drivers and their impacts on fluvial water and sediment discharge. Here we show that mean Yangtze River water discharge of the first decade after the closing of the Three Gorges Dam (TGD) (2003-2012) was 67 km(3)/yr (7%) lower than that of the previous 50 years (1950-2002), and 126 km(3)/yr less compared to the relatively wet period of pre-TGD decade (1993-2002). Most (60-70%) of the decline can be attributed to decreased precipitation, the remainder resulting from construction …