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Morphological Response of Tidal Marshes, Flats and Channels of the Outer Yangtze River Mouth to a Major Storm. |
| المؤلفون: |
Shi-Lun Yang, Wade R., Friedrichs, Carl T., Zhong Shi, Ping-Xing Ding, Carl T., Jun Zhu, Qing-Ying Zhao, Carl T. |
| المصدر: |
Estuaries; Dec2003, Vol. 26 Issue 6, p1416-1425, 10p, 2 Diagrams, 14 Graphs, 2 Maps |
| مستخلص: |
Systematic morphological changes of the coastline of the outer Yangtze River mouth in response to storms versus calm weather were documented by daily surveys of tidal marshes and fiats between April 1999 and May 2001 and by boat surveys offshore during this and earlier periods. The largest single event during 1999 to 2001 was Typhoon Paibaian, which eroded the unvegetated tidal fiat and lower marsh and led to accretion on the middle-to-upper marsh and in the subtidal channel. The greatest erosion of 21 cm occurred at the border between the marsh and the unvegetated fiat due to the landward retreat of the marsh edge during the storm. Strong waves on the fiats increased suspended sediment concentration by 10-20 times. On the upper marsh, where the frequency of submergence by astronomical tides is only 3%, Typhoon Paibian led to 4 cm of accretion, accounting for 57% of the net accretion observed over the 2-yr study. Typhoon Paibian and other large storms in the 1990s caused over 50 cm of accretion along the deep axis of the river mouth outlet channel. During calm weather, when hydrodynamic energy was dominated by tides, deposition was centered on the unvegetated fiats and lower marsh with little deposition on the high marsh and erosion in the subtidal channel. Depositional recovery of the tidal fiat from typhoon-induced erosion took only several days, whereas recovery of the subtidal channel by erosion took several weeks. A conceptual model for the morphological responses of tidal marshes, flats, and subtidal channels to storms and calm weather is proposed such that sediment continually moves from regions of highest near-bed energy towards areas of lower energy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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