Taming the Yellow River: Silt and Floods

1. Front Matter

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2. American Soil and Water Conservation Policy

   • Sandra S. Batie

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3. Measuring the Benefits of Water Quality Improvement: Recent U.S. Practice

   • John J. Boland

   Pages 21-30

4. Wash Load, Autosuspensions and Hyperconcentrations

   • Lucien M. Brush

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5. An Outline for Planning Development of River Basins: a Regional Approach

   • Nathan Buras

   Pages 45-72

6. New Research Directions in Agricultural Hydrology and Erosion

   • Klaus W. Flach, John M. Laflen

   Pages 73-84

7. Expert Systems and River Basin Management

   • Mark H. Houck

   Pages 85-97

8. Sediment Yield Variations as a Function of Incised Channel Evolution

   • S. A. Schumm, Allen C. Gellis

   Pages 99-109

9. Synthesis of Data on Bed Configurations in Alluvial Channels, and the Effect of Water Temperature and Suspended-Load Concentration

   • John B. Southard

   Pages 111-138

10. Erosion Control and Reservoir Deposition

    • M. Gordon Wolman

    Pages 139-161

11. Flood Forecasting and Its Reliability

    • Ben Chie Yen

    Pages 163-196

12. Remarks

    • Huang Bingwei

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13. The Importance of Yellow River Safety and the Urgency of Research for its Control

    • Zuo Da-Kang

    Pages 201-204

14. Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Heavy Rain in the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Huanghe River

    • Shen Jianzhu, Guo Yimei, Xu Shuying

    Pages 205-222

15. Some Problems of Flooding and its Prevention in the Lower Yellow River

    • Liu Changming, Liang Jiyang

    Pages 223-241

16. Simulation of Flood Propagation on Channel of the Yellow River by Convection-Diffusion Equation

    • Liang Jiyang, Liu Changming

    Pages 243-256

17. A General Survey of Problems in Flood Study on the Lower Reach of the Yellow River

    • Hua Shi Qian

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18. Fluvial Processes of the Lower Yellow River and Estimation of Flood Conditions

    • Ye Qingchao

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19. The Temporal and Spatial Variation of Erosion and Sediment Yield on the Loess Plateau

    • Chen Yongzong, Jing Ke, Lu Jinfa, Zhang Xunchang

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20. Study of Counter Measures for the Yellow River Regulation and Flood Prevention

    • Wang Wenkai, Wang Tingwu, Ma Min

    Pages 289-298

About four years ago Dr. Gilbert White visited China and sowed the seeds of this project through conversations with Drs. Huang and Gong of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Mr. Long of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission. After some additional rounds of communications by letter, the plan for a workshop evolved and Drs. Wolman and Brush visited with Dr. Sabadell of the Nat_ional Science Foundation to begin the initial planning. In March 1987 Dr. Brush visited China and the details were worked out for the October 1987 workshop. At the outset it was recognized that the 10 American scientists and engineers ltad very Ii ttle knowledge of the Yellow River and none had ever seen it. Therefore, it became important that field trips be scheduled before the workshop to better set the stage for fruitful discussions. It was also acknowledged that the American participants could not present papers about the Yellow River per se so their offerings reflected their general knowledge of rivers using other rivers as examples. On the other hand the Chinese participants were all well into the difficult problems of harnessing the Yellow River and made their presentations accordingly. Despite these differences the subject matter was the unifying thread and cross communication was excellent.

• Erosion
• Sediment
• Sedimentation
• Water supply
• fluvial
• hydrology
• safety
• silt
• soil
• hydrogeology

• The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

  Lucien M. Brush, M. Gordon Wolman

• Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

  Huang Bing-Wei

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