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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-549-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-549-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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Emergent stationarity in Yellow River sediment transport and the underlying shift of dominance: from streamflow to vegetation
Sheng Ye
Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources, Department of Hydraulic
Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Qihua Ran
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources, Department of Hydraulic
Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Xudong Fu
State Key Laboratory of Hydro-science and Engineering, Tsinghua
University, Beijing 100084, China
Chunhong Hu
State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in
River Basin, Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing
100048, China
Guangqian Wang
State Key Laboratory of Hydro-science and Engineering, Tsinghua
University, Beijing 100084, China
Gary Parker
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Department
of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
61801, USA
Xiuxiu Chen
Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources, Department of Hydraulic
Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Siwei Zhang
Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources, Department of Hydraulic
Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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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.
Our study shows that there is declining coupling between sediment concentration and discharge...