Modeling and analysis of sediment trapping efficiency of large dams using remote sensing

N Moragoda, S Cohen, J Gardner… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying the role of sediment trapping by dams is important due to its control on fluvial
and coastal geomorphology, aquatic ecology, water quality, and human water uses …

Estimates of sediment trapping rates for two reservoirs in the Lake Erie watershed: Past and present scenarios

F Alighalehbabakhani, CJ Miller, JP Selegean… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Sediment accumulation can significantly impact the useful life of dams and the multiple
functions served by those dams such as flood attenuation, hydropower, and water supply …

Calculating sediment trapping efficiencies for reservoirs in tropical settings: A case study from the Burdekin Falls Dam, NE Australia

SE Lewis, ZT Bainbridge, PM Kuhnert… - Water Resources …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The Brune and Churchill curves have long been used to predict sediment trapping
efficiencies for reservoirs in the USA which typically experience winter and spring‐dominant …

Estimating reservoir sedimentation rates at large spatial and temporal scales: A case study of California

JT Minear, GM Kondolf - Water Resources Research, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Previous reservoir sedimentation models have ignored two key factors for large spatial and
temporal modeling of multiple reservoirs: trapping by upstream dams and decreasing …

Review and improvement of conventional models for reservoir sediment trapping efficiency

G Tan, P Chen, J Deng, Q Xu, R Tang, Z Feng, R Yi - Heliyon, 2019 - cell.com
Sediment accumulation has been the most important factor influencing the comprehensive
benefit of reservoirs. A quantitative investigation of the sediment trapping efficiencies of …

Forecasting the remaining reservoir capacity in the Laurentian Great Lakes watershed

F Alighalehbabakhani, CJ Miller, M Baskaran… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Sediment accumulation behind a dam is a significant factor in reservoir operation and
watershed management. There are many dams located within the Laurentian Great Lakes …

An improved method for interpretation of riverine concentration‐discharge relationships indicates long‐term shifts in reservoir sediment trapping

Q Zhang, CJ Harman, WP Ball - Geophysical Research Letters, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Derived from river monitoring data, concentration‐discharge (C‐Q) relationships are
powerful indicators of export dynamics. Proper interpretation of such relationships can be …

Sediment delivery modeling in practice: Comparing the effects of watershed characteristics and data resolution across hydroclimatic regions

P Hamel, K Falinski, R Sharp, DA Auerbach… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Geospatial models are commonly used to quantify sediment contributions at the watershed
scale. However, the sensitivity of these models to variation in hydrological and …

Dam removal express assessment models (dream) part 2: Sample runs/sensitivity tests

Y Cui, C Braudrick, WE Dietrich, B Cluer… - Journal of Hydraulic …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents sample runs of the Dam Removal Express Assessment Models
(DREAM) presented in the companion paper, Cui et al.(2006): DREAM-1 for simulation of …

Spillway staging and selective sediment deposition in sand storage dams

JMG Viducich - 2015 - ir.library.oregonstate.edu
Rainfall scarcity and variability present serious challenges to water security for many rural
communities throughout the world's drylands. Sand dams--weirs built across ephemeral or …