More and more attention has been paid to the study of the impact of extreme climatic events on the ecological environment off the Changjiang River Estuary. In this study, the relationship between the chlorophyll concentration and ENSO (El Niño...
Disastrous storm surges and waves caused by typhoons are major marine dynamic disasters affecting the east China coast and the Changjiang River Estuary, especially when they occur coincidentally. In this study, a high-resolution wave–current coupled...
Estuaries are areas where runoff and tide interact. Tidal waves propagate upstream from river mouths and produce tidal currents and tidal level variations along rivers. Based on the hydrological frequency analysis of river discharge in the dry season...
An estuary region is a complex environment with a transition from fresh to brackish to salt water, and in which some environmental factors change dramatically over small ranges. Therefore, it is important to understand the impact of the selection of...
Based on a high-resolution unstructured SWAN model and GFS forecast wind, an operational wave forecasting system is conducted for the Changjiang River Estuary (CRE). The performance of the wave forecasting system is evaluated by comparing it with the...
The continuous operation of the Three Gorges Reservoir since 2003 has altered the annual runoff into the Changjiang River Estuary, significantly affecting patterns of saltwater intrusion. This has become more pronounced with the development of the Ea...
Marine heatwave (MHW) events have significant consequences for marine ecosystems and human society. This paper investigates a MHW’s spatial–temporal characteristics in the Changjiang River Estuary and its surrounding coastal regions (CRES...
The Changjiang River Estuary and the adjacent East China Sea is one of the world’s largest coastal carbon sinks, with a steadily increasing sink capacity over recent decades. However, the potential changes in its carbon sink and control mechani...
Tidal-scale wave modulation is a critical yet complex process in macro-tidal estuaries. This study investigates semidiurnal wave modulations in the Changjiang River Estuary (CRE) using unique, long-term in situ observations and high-resolution ADCIRC...
The estuarine turbidity maximum (ETM) under strong tidal dynamics (during spring tides) was investigated along the Deepwater Navigation Channel (DNC) in the North Passage (NP) of the Changjiang River Estuary (CRE) in wet and dry seasons of 2016, 2017...
We conducted 24-h real-time monitoring of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and nutrients in the near-shore (M4-1), front (M4-8), and offshore (M4-13) regions of the 31° N section of the Changjiang (Yangtze) River estuary plume in summer. Carb...
Freshwater plume at the Changjiang River (CR) mouth are essential to the coastal water quality and ecosystem because they can cause estuary stratification and hypoxia, potentially deteriorating the water environment. Furthermore, the advection heat t...
The estuarine tapertail anchovy, Coilia nasus, is a migratory fish with high economic value in China. We collected fish from the Changjiang River (the Yangtze River) estuary, the Qiantang River estuary, and the southern Yellow Sea, and studied their...
The study used the SCHISM ocean model combined with the WWM III wind wave model to quantify the interaction between wind waves and tides in the coastal zone of the Changjiang River Estuary and its adjacent areas. The wave and storm surge during Typho...
Marine heavy metal pollution has been an important global environmental issue in recent years. Concentrations of nine heavy metals (Pb, Cr, Ni, Cu, Zn, Co, Cd, As, and Hg) from marine sediments (2015, n = 38) in the Changjiang River Estuary and conti...
Marine algal toxins, highly toxic secondary metabolites, have significant influences on coastal ecosystem health and mariculture safety. The occurrence and environmental control factors of lipophilic marine algal toxins (LMATs) in the surface seawate...
In view of the expansion and directional change mechanisms of Yangtze River water diluted with sea water in the shelf region (also known as Changjiang diluted water [CDW]) during summer and autumn, a three-dimensional hydrodynamic model of the Yangtz...
Sediment transport in Hangzhou Bay and the adjacent Changjiang Estuary is extremely complex due to the bathymetry and hydrodynamic conditions in this region. Using the particle tracing method based on the ROMS model, three-dimensional (3D) passive pa...
Estuaries and deltas hold significant socioeconomic importance and immense ecological value due to their dynamic geomorphic processes and unique geographical advantages. However, in recent decades, delta recession and the instability of river regimes...
Shanghai is experiencing drinking water supply problems that are caused by heavy pollution of its raw water supply, deficiencies in its treatment processes, and water quality deterioration in the distribution system. However, little attention has bee...
Knowledge of river engineering impacts on water discharge is significant to flow guidelines and sustainable water resource managements for balancing human consumption and the natural environment. In this study, based on the collected multi-decadal di...
The oceanic fronts play an important role in marine ecosystems and fisheries. This study investigates the seasonal variability of sea surface temperature (SST) fronts in Zhoushan and its adjacent seas for the period 1982–2021. The influences of...
Knowledge about the spatiotemporal distribution of sea surface salinity (SSS) provides valuable and important information for understanding various marine biogeochemical processes and ecosystems, especially for those coastal waters significantly affe...
Particulate organic carbon (POC) plays an important role in the global carbon cycle. The POC in the Changjiang Estuary and adjacent coastal region of the East China Sea (ECS) is dominated by riverine input and marine production and is significantly i...
Water and sediment are two of the most essential elements in estuaries. Their product, suspended sediment concentration (SSC), is involved in hydrology, geomorphology and ecology. This study was focused on the spatial and temporal variations of SSC i...
Skeletonema potamos is a freshwater diatom that has been widely distributed in North America, Europe, and Australia since the 1980s. However, there have been few previous reports of S. potamos in China. Only recently has S. potamos been frequently fo...
Air–sea CO2 flux (FCO2) in the estuary–coastal continuum plays a vital role in global carbon sequestration; however, the mechanisms governing FCO2 spatial heterogeneity during early spring remain poorly understood, particularly the roles...
The variable optical properties of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) under the complicated dynamic marine environment make it difficult to establish a robust inversion algorithm for quantifying the dissolved organic carbon (DOC). To better...
The Sheyang estuary is located on the northern Jiangsu muddy coast, in the western South Yellow Sea, and in the transition area between the eroded coast of the abandoned Yellow River delta and the silted coast of the central Jiangsu. This area is als...
Vegetation colonizing fluvial sandbars provides many noteworthy functions in river and floodplain systems, but it also influences hydrodynamic processes, mainly during flooding events. Numerical modelling is generally used to evaluate the impact of f...
Elucidating the compositions, sources and mixing processes of dissolved organic matter (DOM) is crucial for a gaining deeper understanding of the coastal carbon cycle and global carbon budget. Hangzhou Bay (HZB), a vital estuary in China, receives fr...
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) have occurred frequently in coastal waters of China, imposing negative effects on the marine ecological environment. A dataset of HABs and terrestrial runoff was collected and analyzed in this study, and factors responsibl...
To reveal the characteristics and environmental indications for the combination of the grain size and magnetic susceptibility of coastal sediments, we provided a necessary basis for further study on their genetic mechanisms. Based on the data of grai...
Monitoring the spatiotemporal variability of nutrient concentrations in shelf seas is important for understanding marine primary productivity and ecological problems. However, long time-series and high spatial-resolution nutrient concentration data a...
A direct, reagent-free, ultraviolet spectroscopic method for the simultaneous determination of nitrate (NO3−), nitrite (NO2−), and salinity in seawater is presented. The method is based on measuring the absorption spectra of the raw seawater range of...
Barrier lakes are secondary disasters with associated landslides and debris flow that can cause serious damage to the downstream populations and areas. Existing studies are lacking in comprehensive descriptions of the rescue process, where the main c...
Automatic extraction of the skeleton lines of river systems from high-resolution remote-sensing images has great significance for surveying and managing water resources. A large number of existing methods for the automatic extraction of skeleton line...
Climate-driven hydrological extremes and anthropogenic interventions are increasingly altering streamflow regimes worldwide. While prior studies have explored climate or regulation effects separately, few have integrated multiple teleconnection indic...
Channel reservoirs have the characteristics of both rivers and lakes, in which hydrodynamic conditions and the factors affecting the eutrophication process are complex and highly affected by weather conditions. Water age at any location in the reserv...