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Reservoir Sedimentation and Transformation of Morpho-Logy in the Lower Yellow River during 10 Year’s Initial Operation of the Xiaolangdi Reservoir

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The Xiaolangdi Hydro-Project is one of the large projects on the main stem of the Middle Yellow River. It has been operated for more than 10 years, since its impoundment in October, 1999. The reservoir has trapped 2.833×109 m3 of sediment, and caused the total erosion of 1.891×109 t in the Lower Yellow River from October, 1999 through October, 2010. Not only the serious atrophied situation of the Lower Yellow River (LYR) has been resuscitating, but also many new phenomena of sediment transport and behaviors of channel re-establishing are coming into being. They are illustrated and discussed in detail in this paper.

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  1. International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation (IRTCRS), Beijing, 100048, China

    Jian-guo Chen

  2. China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), Beijing, 100048, China

    Wen-hao Zhou & Qiang Chen

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Project supported by the National Basic Research and Development Program of China (973 Program, Grant No. 2011CB409901), the “12th Five-Year Plan” to Support Science and Technology Project (Grant No. 2012BAB02B01) and the Special Funds for Public Welfare Project (Grant No. 200901014).

Biography: CHEN Jian-guo (1962-), Male, Master, Professor

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Chen, Jg., Zhou, Wh. & Chen, Q. Reservoir Sedimentation and Transformation of Morpho-Logy in the Lower Yellow River during 10 Year’s Initial Operation of the Xiaolangdi Reservoir. J Hydrodyn 24, 914–924 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1001-6058(11)60319-3

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