Emergent stationarity in Yellow River sediment transport and the underlying shift of dominance: from streamflow to vegetation

Ye, Sheng; Ran, Qihua; Fu, Xudong; Hu, Chunhong; Wang, Guangqian; Parker, Gary; Chen, Xiuxiu; Zhang, Siwei

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-549-2019

Articles | Volume 23, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-549-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-549-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 1

Research article

| Highlight paper

|

30 Jan 2019

Research article | Highlight paper |

| 30 Jan 2019

Emergent stationarity in Yellow River sediment transport and the underlying shift of dominance: from streamflow to vegetation

Sheng Ye, Qihua Ran, Xudong Fu, Chunhong Hu, Guangqian Wang, Gary Parker, Xiuxiu Chen, and Siwei Zhang

Download

Final revised paper (published on 30 Jan 2019)
Supplement to the final revised paper
Preprint (discussion started on 10 Jul 2018)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

- Printer-friendly version

- Supplement

RC1: 'Emergent stationarity in Yellow River sediment transport and the underlying shift of dominance: from streamflow to vegetation', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Aug 2018
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1', Sheng Ye, 13 Nov 2018
RC2: 'Comments on hess-2018-265', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Oct 2018
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer 2', Sheng Ye, 13 Nov 2018

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (13 Nov 2018) by Fuqiang Tian

AR by Sheng Ye on behalf of the Authors (14 Nov 2018) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (26 Nov 2018) by Fuqiang Tian

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (07 Dec 2018)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (04 Jan 2019)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (10 Jan 2019) by Fuqiang Tian

AR by Sheng Ye on behalf of the Authors (10 Jan 2019) Author's response

ED: Publish as is (14 Jan 2019) by Fuqiang Tian

AR by Sheng Ye on behalf of the Authors (16 Jan 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

Our study shows that there is declining coupling between sediment concentration and discharge from daily to annual scales for gauges across the Yellow River basin (YRB). Not only the coupling, but also the magnitude of sediment response to discharge variation decreases with long-term mean discharge. This emergent stationarity can be related to sediment retardation by vegetation, suggesting the shift of dominance from water to vegetation as mean annual discharge increases.