Erosion and Sediment Yields in the Changing Environment

proceedings of a workhop held in Chengdu (China) in 2012
 
Edited by Adrian L. Collins, Valentin Golosov, Arthur J. Horowitz, Xixi Lu, Mike Stone, Des E. Walling & Xinbao Zhang

Contents

• Adrian L. Collins, Valentin Golosov, Arthur J. Horowitz, Xixi Lu, Mike Stone, Des E. Walling & Xinbao Zhang
  Preface, v

 
1. Keynote Papers
    
   • Des E. Walling
     The role of dams in the global sediment budget, 3-11
   • Valentin Golosov, Elena Aseeva, Vladimir Belyaev, Maxim Markelov & Alisa Alyabieva
     Redistribution of sediment and sediment-associated contaminants in the River Chern basin during the last 50 years, 12-19
   • Xixi Lu, Xiankun Yang & Lishan Ran
     Delineation of China’s reservoirs and lakes using remote sensing techniques, 20-28
   • He Xiubin & Wei Jie
     Impacts of eco-restoration on suspended sediment load in the upper Yangtze River, China, 29-36
   
    
2. Dynamics of Erosion and Sediment Transport in Fluvial Systems
    
   • Arthur J. Horowitz, Verlon C. Stephens, Kent A. Elrick & James J. Smith
     Annual fluxes of sediment-associated trace/major elements, carbon, nutrients and sulfur from US coastal rivers, 39-48
   • Adam Łajczak
     Transport of suspended sediment by the Vistula River basin upstream of Kraków, southern Poland, and the human impact during the second half of the 20th century, 49-56
   • Janet Hooke
     Dynamics of bank erosion on the River Dane, England, 57-64
   • L. Picco, L. Mao, E. Rigon, J. Moretto, D. Ravazzolo, F. Delai & M. A. Lenzi
     An update of the magnitude–frequency analysis of Rio Cordon (Italy) bedload data after 25 years of monitoring, 65-71
   • David Morche, Florian Haas, Henning Baewert, Tobias Heckmann, Karl-Heinz Schmidt & Michael Becht
     Sediment transport in the proglacial Fagge River (Kaunertal/Austria), 72-80
   • M. R. Peart, L. Fok & J. Chen
     Sediment and water quality in the Kam Tin River, Hong Kong, 81-90
   • Yusheng Zhang, Adrian L. Collins & John R. Williams
     Dynamics of sediment delivery in drain flow on clay soils across England and Wales, 91-97
   • Gaston Lienou, Gil Mahé, Luc Sigha-Mkamdjou, Jean Emmanuel Paturel, Jacob Nwalal & Justin Nlozoa
     Suspended sediment transport by rivers in the different climatic zones of Cameroon (Central Africa), 98-103
   • Y. Jun Xu & Timothy Rosen
     Are riverine sediment discharges sufficient to offset the sinking coast of Louisiana ? 104-113
   • Zhijing Cao & Yuhai Bao
     Sediment quality in the water-level-fluctuation-zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir, China, 114-121
   
    
3. Impacts of Climate Change and Human Activities on Erosion and Sediment Yield
    
   • Adrian L. Collins, Ian Foster, Yusheng Zhang, Richard Gooday, David Lee, David Sear, Pamela Naden & Iwan Jones
     Assessing “modern background sediment delivery to rivers” across England and Wales and its use for catchment management, 125-131
   • N. McLellan, L. Gray, D. Allin, K. Damude, A. DiFebo, K. McLean, E. Sararas, M. Stone & J. Price
     Transient storage and release of sediment and phosphorus in a small urban impoundment, 132-137
   • Wayne D. Erskine & Michael J. Saynor
     Landslide impacts on suspended sediment sources following an extreme event in the Magela Creek catchment, northern Australia, 138-145
   • Peter Fischer, Florian Haas & Bernd Cyffka
     Driving forces in a floodplain restoration project: interaction between surface water, groundwater and morphodynamic processes during an ecological flooding, 146-154
   • Zhou Ping, Wen Anbang, Zhuang Wenhua & Liu Guobin
     Fractal geometry of aggregates in natural grassland soils with different restoration stages, 155-160
   • Martin Geilhausen, Jan-Christoph Otto, David Morche & Lothar Schrott
     Decadal sediment yield from an Alpine proglacial zone inferred from reservoir sedimentation (Pasterze, Hohe Tauern, Austria), 161-172
   • Leila Gholami, Seyed Hamid Reza Sadeghi & Mahdi Homaee
     Efficiency of rice straw mulch as a soil amendment to reduce splash erosion, 173-177
   • E. Rigon, J. Moretto, L. Mao, L. Picco, F. Delai, D. Ravazzolo, M. A. Lenzi & G. Kaless
     Thirty years of vegetation cover dynamics and planform changes in the Brenta River (Italy): implications for channel recovery, 178-186
   • Donatella Termini
     Numerical simulation of non-equilibrium sediment transport in a flume, 187-197
   • Yuhai Bao, Xiubin He, Jie Wei, Qiang Tang & Feng Guo
     Soil erosion under different land uses in the riparian zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir, China, 198-201
   • Patricia Kennie & Jim Bogen
     Sedimentation patterns and sediment composition in a Norwegian glacial lake during a large magnitude flood, 202-209
   • Jim Bogen, Truls Bønsnes & Galina Ragulina
     Impact of climate change on glacial sediment delivery to Norwegian rivers and consequences for hydropower operations, 210-218
   
    
4. Erosion and Sediment Yield Modelling
    
   • Tapio Tuukkanen, Harri Koivusalo, Hannu Marttila, Antti Leinonen, Bjørn Kløve, Ari Laurén & Leena Finér
     A GIS-based model for ditch erosion risk assessment in peatland forestry, 221-227
   • Xiaoli Jin, Genwei Cheng, C-Y Xu, Jihui Fan & Zelong Ma
     Estimation of the spatial distribution of soil erosion in the hilly area of Sichuan, China, 228-234
   • Xiankun Yang & X. X. Lu
     Model of water regulation in the Yangtze River Basin and its effects using remote sensing techniques, 235-243
   • Fengxia Tian, Xiubin He, Guiyu Li & Shiqing Zheng
     Characteristics of runoff processes on unmetalled loess roads under experimental rainfall conditions, 244-250
   • Kirill Maltsev, Oleg Yermolaev & Vadim Mozzherin
     Mapping and spatial analysis of suspended sediment yields from the Russian Plain, 251-258
   • Lishan Ran & Xixi Lu
     Estimating sediment trapping efficiency from Landsat images: a case study of the Yellow River basin, 259-266
   • Kazimierz Banasik, Dariusz Górski, Zbigniew Popek & Leszek Hejduk
     Estimating the annual sediment yield of a small agricultural catchment in central Poland, 267-275
   • Bennie van der Waal & Kate Rowntree
     A Geomorphological Response Model for predicting sediment-related habitat change in ephemeral rivers, 276-283
   • Jui-Yi Ho, Chi-Cheng Yang, Kwan Tun Lee, Yu-Han Hsu, Shuyou Cao & Ravinder Kaur
     Estimation of sediment yield for geo-climatically diverse watersheds, 284-289
   
    
5. Mountain Hazards and Debris Flow
    
   • Florian Haas, Tobias Heckmann, Ludwig Hilger & Michael Becht
     Quantification and modelling of debris flows in the proglacial area of the Gepatschferner, Austria, using ground-based LiDAR, 293-302
   • M. J. Saynor, W. D. Erskine, G. Staben & J. Lowry
     A rare occurrence of landslides initiated by an extreme event in March 2007 in the Alligator Rivers Region, Australia, 303-310
   • Mi Tian, Kai-Heng Hu, Chuan-Chang Wang, Chao Ma & Fa-Hong Lei
     Study of viscous debris-flow surges moving on a residual layer in a flume, 311-316
   
    
6. Monitoring and Tracing Methodology
    
   • Magdalena Fitrzyk
     Determining soil erosion by water using high resolution remotely-sensed data, 319-326
   • Peter Strauss, Gema Guzman, Axel Mentler, Rosemarie Hösl, Shengping Wang, Jose Alfonso Gomez & Zhiqiang Zhang
     Evaluation of two sediment tracers under simulated rainfall, 327-331
   • Oleg Yermolaev & Alina Avvakumova
     Cartographic-geoinformational estimation of spatio-temporal erosion dynamics of arable soils in forest-steppe landscapes of the Russian Plain, 332-337
   • Jean P. G. Minella, Gustavo H. Merten, Desmond E. Walling & Michele Moro
     Using 137Cs measurements and sediment yield monitoring to document catchment-scale sediment dynamics and budgets, 338-344
   • Geraldo Wilson Junior
     Hydrodynamic and sediment measurements in estuaries of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil: methodology and application, 345-355
   • Xi-Xi Lu, Jian-jun Wang & Cheng Liu
     MODIS-based remote sensing of suspended sediment concentrations of the Middle and Lower Yangtze River, China, 356-363
   • Abdulvahed Khaledi Darvishan, Seyed Hamidreza Sadeghi, Mahdi Homaee & Mahmood Arabkhedri
     Potential use of synthetic color-contrast aggregates and a digital image processing technique in soil splash measurements, 364-368
   • David Gateuille, Olivier Evrard, Irène Lefevre, Elodie Moreau-Guigon, Fabrice Alliot, Marc Chevreuil & Jean-Marie Mouchel
     Understanding polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon transfers at the catchment scale combining chemical and fallout radionuclides analyses, 369-377
   • Xinbao Zhang, Yi Long, Xiubin He, Anbang Wen & Dongchun Yan
     Use of 137Cs and 210Pbex peaks produced by events in the catchment for dating sediments in the Jiulongdian Reservoir, Chuxiong, Yunnan Province, China, 378-384
   • Paolo Porto, Desmond E. Walling, Giovanni Callegari & Carmelo La Spada
     Further investigation of the relationship between 137Cs and 210Pbex flux and sediment output from two small experimental catchments in Calabria, southern Italy, 385-393
   • Vladimir Belyaev, Eugenia Shamshurina, Maxim Markelov, Valentin Golosov, Nadezda Ivanova, Valeriy Bondarev, Tatiana Paramonova, Olivier Evrard, Catherine Ottlé, Irène Lefèvre & Philippe Bonté
     Quantification of the sediment budget of a river basin, based on reconstruction of the post-fallout redistribution of Chernobyl particle-bound 137Cs, 394-403
   • Kate Rowntree, Pearl Mzobe & Bennie van der Waal
     Sediment source tracing in the Thina catchment, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 404-411
   • Olivier Evrard, Vladimir Belyaev, Caroline Chartin, Catherine Ottlé, Nadezda Ivanova, Maxim Markelov, Irène Lefèvre, Valentin Golosov & Philippe Bonté
     Tracing the dispersion of sediment contaminated with radionuclides in catchments exposed to Chernobyl and Fukushima fallout, 412-418
   • J. Moretto, E. Rigon, L. Mao, F. Delai, L. Picco & M. A. Lenzi
     Assessing morphological changes in gravel-bed rivers using LiDAR data and colour bathymetry, 419-427
   • L. Picco, L. Mao, M. Cavalli, E. Buzzi, E. Rigon, J. Moretto, F. Delai, D. Ravazzolo & M. A. Lenzi
     Using a Terrestrial Laser Scanner to assess the morphological dynamics of a gravel-bed river, 428-437
   • Tobias Heckmann, Florian Haas, David Morche, Karl-Heinz Schmidt, Joachim Rohn, Michael Moser, Matthias Leopold, Michael Kuhn, Christian Briese, Norbert Pfeifer & Michael Becht
     Investigating an Alpine proglacial sediment budget using field measurements, airborne and terrestrial LiDAR data, 438-447