长江河口上边界床沙粒径的长期变化及其原因.pdfVIP

第17卷第4期 长江流域资源与环境 Vo1．17 No．4 2008年7月 Resources and Environment in the Yangtze Basin July 2008 Article ID：1004—8227(2008)04—0598-08 LoNG—TERM CHANGES AND CAUSES oF THE GRAlN SlZE oF BoTToM SEDlMENTS AT LANDWARD LlMlT oF THE YAN GTZE ESTUARY CHEN Xi—qing 。LV Xi—xi ，YAN Yi—xin ，TONG Chao—feng ，SONG Zhi—yao ， DOU Xi—ping ，LI Jian—yong。，TIAN Lei (1．State Key Laboratory of Hydrology—Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering at Hohai University， Nanjing 210098，China；2．Department of Geography，National University of Singapore，Singapore ll9260； 3．Lower Reach Bureau of Yangtze Hydrologic and Water Resources Survey，Nanjing 21001l，China； 4．State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering at Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute，Nanjing 210029，China) Abstract：Datong Hydrometric Station and Sediment Monitoring Profile are located in the land— ward limit of the Yangtze Estuary．The river channel from Datong(tidal limit)to the river mouth is as long as 680 km．The increasingly intensified human activities since the 1 980s have signifi— cantly changed the sediment and water discharges from the Yangtze River into the estuary，there— fore greatly influenced the sediment dynamics and morphodynamics from the lower Yangtze River to the Yangtze Estuary．This paper mainly examined the long—term variations in the grain size of bottom sediments since the 1 950s at Datong，the landward limit of the Yangtze Estuary．There is an increasing trend in grain size( 5 O)of bottom sediments from 1977 to 2004 mainly in response to a sustained decrease in suspended sediments from upstream．It is noticed t