The sediment budget is a method to study the distribution of sediment in different parts of a river basin. This paper studies the sediment budget of the Yangtze River by analyzing the data on soil erosion, size distributions of sediment deposits, sediment load, and fluvial process. read more
Sediment budget of the Yangtze River Zhao-Yin Wang,1,2 Yitian Li,3 and Yiping He4 Received 3 March 2006; revised 3 October 2006; accepted 16 November 2006; published 3 April 2007. read more
Abstract [1] The sediment budget is a method to study the distribution of sediment in different parts of a river basin. This paper studies the sediment budget of the Yangtze River by analyzing the data on soil erosion, size distributions of sediment deposits, sediment load, and fluvial process. read more