Modeling and Practice of Erosion and Sediment Transport under Change

• Main Author: Mahé, Gil (auth)
• Other Authors: Meddi, Mohamed (auth), Aksoy, Hafzullah (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: History of engineering & technology; proglacial channels; watershed; practice; modeling; reservoirs; degradation; rill development; Mediterranean Maghreb Basin; urban drainage system; fluvial erosion; Wadi Mina; Algeria; sewer systems; climate change; phosphorus; complex morphodynamics; incipient deposition; riverbed; limiting tractive force; ruptures; runoff; flooding; soil loss; suspended sediment; sedimentation; sediment; transfer; erosion; specific degradation; soil erosion; Xihe River Basin; water fluxes; sediment fluxes; environmental change; field measurements; dynamical downscaling; mixed-size bed material; two-phase flow; agriculture; sloping flume experiments; mitigation measures; bed load transport; shear stress; flow discharge; GSD; shear Reynolds number; Anthropocene; human activities; deposition; sediment delivery; soil slurry; SMBA Dam; bedload transport; aggradation; Czech Republic; sediment transport; self-cleansing; erosion topography; CCHE1D; sediment retention; SWAT model; migration; water quality modelling; hillside reservoirs; erosion modelling
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Climate and anthropogenic changes impact the conditions of erosion and sediment transport in rivers. Rainfall variability and, in many places, the increase of rainfall intensity have a direct impact on rainfall erosivity. Increasing changes in demography have led to the acceleration of land cover changes in natural areas, as well as in cultivated areas, and, sometimes, in degraded areas and desertified landscapes. These anthropogenized landscapes are more sensitive to erosion. On the other hand, the increase in the number of dams in watersheds traps a great portion of sediment fluxes, which do not reach the sea in the same amount, nor at the same quality, with consequences on coastal geomorphodynamics. This book is dedicated to studies on sediment fluxes from continental areas to coastal areas, as well as observation, modeling, and impact analysis at different scales from watershed slopes to the outputs of large river basins. This book is concentrated on a number of keywords: "erosion" and "sediment transport", "model" and "practice", and "change". The keywords are briefly discussed with respect to the relevant literature. The contributions in this book address observations and models based on laboratory and field data, allowing researchers to make use of such resources in practice under changing conditions.