Tigris and Euphrates are the main rivers in Iraq. The former has 5 main tributaries while the latter has no tributaries within Iraq. All these rivers exhibit meandering and/or shifting of their courses due to many rea...
The East Alligator River drains a 7000 km2 catchment in northern Australia comprised largely of Aboriginal land and has a very low average population density of about 0.15 persons per km2. River reaches were classifie...
The extra sediment load induced by typhoons and rainstorms in the Heshe River, Taiwan, are the principal reason for severe sediment-related disasters. The total sediment load during Typhoon Morakot in 9009 was 31 x lo...
State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (Grant No. 2007CB407206);Planning Projects of National Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2006BAC01A11)
As a fundamental category of river system, comparisons in diverse regions and types with quantitative parameters on meander morphology will help to distinguish different characteristics and approach formations and evo...
Observation of fluid parcel pathways in the Kuroshio Stream revealed a striking cross stream pattern associated with the Kuroshio’s meanders. In order to understand the observed pattern, a two dimensional kinematic m...
Morphological analyses require quantitative description of river course by providing its equation. Such an equation is not possible as the river plan-form contains loops that cannot be described by it. To circumvent t...
In this paper, a comparison among the seven large meanders of the Kuroshio is made in order to probe into their similarity and differences. The major results are described as follows.1. Although the three phases for t...
The study has been funded by a grant from the Youth Scientific Fund,Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Ⅰ. INTRODUCTIONMeanders are a common river channel pattern. It is generally accepted that comparatively low sediment concentration, especially when bed material load is considered, is one of the fundamental condition...