Improving river routing using a differentiable Muskingum‐Cunge model and physics‐informed machine learning

T Bindas, WP Tsai, J Liu, F Rahmani… - Water Resources …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, rainfall‐runoff simulations in small headwater basins have been improved by
methodological advances such as deep neural networks (NNs) and hybrid physics‐NN …

Recent intensified erosion and massive sediment deposition in Tibetan Plateau rivers

J Li, G Wang, C Song, S Sun, J Ma, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent climate change has caused an increase in warming-driven erosion and sediment
transport processes on the Tibetan Plateau (TP). Yet a lack of measurements hinders our …

Where rivers jump course

S Brooke, AJ Chadwick, J Silvestre, MP Lamb… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Rivers can abruptly shift pathways in rare events called avulsions, which cause devastating
floods. The controls on avulsion locations are poorly understood as a result of sparse data …

Spatial trends and drivers of bedload and suspended sediment fluxes in global rivers

S Cohen, J Syvitski, T Ashley, R Lammers… - Water resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bedload is notoriously challenging to measure and model; its dynamics, therefore, remains
largely unknown in most fluvial systems worldwide. We present results from a global scale …

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 …

Retrieval of suspended sediment concentration (SSC) in the Arabian Gulf water of arid region by Sentinel-2 data

R Sankaran, JA Al-Khayat, J Aravinth… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Suspended sediment concentration (SSC) in water increases temperature and turbidity,
limits the photosynthesis of aquatic plants, and reduces biologically available oxygen. It is …

Pay-for-practice or Pay-for-performance? A coupled agent-based evaluation tool for assessing sediment management incentive policies

CY Lin, YCE Yang, AK Chaudhary - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Cost-shared programs have been applied to incentivize the adoption of agricultural best
management practices (BMPs) to address the long-standing water quality issue in the …

Assessing the impact of climate change on sediment discharge using a large ensemble rainfall dataset in Pekerebetsu River basin, Hokkaido

R Kido, T Inoue, M Hatono, K Yamanoi - Progress in Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Springer
Increased rainfall associated with climate change can increase sediment discharge. The
supply of fine sediment from slope failures inhibits bed armoring of mountain rivers and …

Deep learning insights into suspended sediment concentrations across the conterminous United States: Strengths and limitations

Y Song, P Chaemchuen, F Rahmani, W Zhi, L Li… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Suspended sediment concentration (SSC) is a crucial indicator for aquatic ecosystems and
reservoir management but is challenging to predict at large scales. It is unclear whether SSC …

[HTML][HTML] Median bed-material sediment particle size across rivers in the contiguous US

GW Abeshu, HY Li, Z Zhu, Z Tan… - Earth System Science …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Bed-material sediment particle size data, particularly the median sediment particle size
(D50), are critical for understanding and modeling riverine sediment transport. However …