Xiaoyong Cheng , Zhijing Li , Yujiao Liu , Zhongwu Jin , Yinjun Zhou , Yisen Wang , Guiqiao Wang , Junfeng Han , Zhixian Cao
{"title":"Experimental study on the settling of irregularly shaped sediment particles from the source region of the Yangtze River","authors":"Xiaoyong Cheng , Zhijing Li , Yujiao Liu , Zhongwu Jin , Yinjun Zhou , Yisen Wang , Guiqiao Wang , Junfeng Han , Zhixian Cao","doi":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2024.11.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2024.11.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Settling plays a pivotal role in sediment transport and morphological evolution of alluvial rivers. Sediment particles in the source regions of large rivers are more likely to feature irregular shapes due to less abrasion than in lower reaches of the rivers. However, the settling of irregularly shaped sediment particles from the source region of a river has to date remained poorly understood. Here, sediment particles were sampled from the Tuotuo River basin in the source region of the Yangtze River. A total of 28 experimental runs were done in a purpose-built settling cylinder to investigate the settling of the sediment particles, with particle Reynolds number, <span><math><mrow><msub><mtext>Re</mtext><mi>p</mi></msub></mrow></math></span>, defined using terminal settling velocity, ranging from 0.22 to 5,939. The results demonstrate that large <span><math><mrow><msub><mtext>Re</mtext><mi>p</mi></msub></mrow></math></span> and irregular particle shape favor unstable settling behavior with wobbling motion and intense velocity fluctuations. An irregular particle experiences larger drag, and, thus, attains a lower terminal velocity than an equivalent sphere, and the shape effect which reduces terminal velocity tends to become significant with increasing <span><math><mrow><msub><mtext>Re</mtext><mi>p</mi></msub></mrow></math></span> and decreasing Corey shape factor. The measured terminal velocities are compared with five empirical formulas. It is shown that the formulas of Dietrich, Haider and Levenspiel, and Wu and Wang are favorable to use (within the range ±20% of the measured data), whereas Zhang's formula and van Rijn's formula may considerably overestimate the terminal velocity, as no shape descriptor is incorporated to account for irregular shape effects. The current study facilitates a new experimental dataset that may be utilized to further investigate sediment settling dynamics. Also, it has direct implications for enhancing the understanding of morpho-dynamics in the source region of the Yangtze River, which may experience significant changes in response to climate change and anthropogenic activities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50290,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sediment Research","volume":"40 1","pages":"Pages 62-77"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143143198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chemical composition of sediment and macrozoobenthos of small urban lakes, the Republic of Karelia, Russia","authors":"Evgeny Savosin , Zakhar Slukovskii","doi":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2024.10.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2024.10.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Assessing the benthic communities in water bodies under increasing anthropogenic pressure seems to be an urgent task of scientific research aimed at short-term and long-term monitoring of water bodies. This study focuses on the chemical composition of modern sediment and the current state of macrozoobenthos of small lakes in the Republic of Karelia (Kitaiskoe and Plotichie) influenced by anthropogenic factors. It was discovered that the lakes of Medvezhyegorsk have a higher concentration of heavy metals (such as lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), molybdenum (Mo), and antimony (Sb)) compared to the Earth’s crust and natural background levels. The current study established the significant impact of industry and transportation on the movement and build up of pollutants in these lakes. The qualitative and quantitative parameters analyzed for the benthic communities in the littoral and profundal zones included the species diversity, the structure of dominant species, and their percentage in the samples. According to the level of macrozoobenthos development, both reservoirs (lakes) were classified as mesotrophic, and according to the values of the chironomid index “K” as moderately polluted. The Pantle–Buck method (saprobic index) showed that the lakes can be classified as polluted (water quality class 4). Macrozoobenthos groups most tolerant to environmental conditions, for example, Chironomidae larvae, prevailed in the studied urban lakes. The economic development of the lakes leads to ecosystem transformation and long-term eutrophication over time affecting the biotic indicators of surface water quality. The results obtained can serve as a basis for complex environmental monitoring of the urbanized territories in the taiga zone.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50290,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sediment Research","volume":"40 1","pages":"Pages 119-128"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143143202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Weiming Wu , Ruihua Nie , Kai Wei , Bruce W. Melville , Asaad Y. Shamseldin , Lu Wang
{"title":"Impacts of grade control structures on riverbed degradation","authors":"Weiming Wu , Ruihua Nie , Kai Wei , Bruce W. Melville , Asaad Y. Shamseldin , Lu Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2024.10.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2024.10.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sediment flux of many rivers has been significantly reduced due to human activities caused by economic development, leading to increasingly severe riverbed degradation. To prevent riverbed degradation, grade control structures (GCSs) have been widely applied in degrading channels. Existing studies have not provided a good understanding of the effects of GCSs on flow characteristics and bed morphology in degrading channels, limiting the management of degrading channels. A series of flume tests with no sediment supply are conducted to investigate the effects of GCSs on upstream water levels and riverbed morphology in degrading channels. The experimental results indicate that: (1) in the initial stage of degradation, the water surface slope in the backwater reach is linearly and negatively correlated with the GCS-height Froude number, based on the average flow velocity upstream of the backwater reach due to GCS and the height of GCS; (2) the effective protection bed length upstream of GCS is approximately equal to the length of the reach where the flow velocity is less than the critical velocity for sediment motion in the backwater zone; (3) for sequential GCSs, the effective protection bed length will decrease if GCS is located in the backwater reach of the downstream GCS. A semi-analytical calculation method of the effective protection length and equilibrium bed profile upstream of GCS in degrading channels is proposed based on the critical condition of sediment motion and weir flow formulas. The computed values by the proposed calculation method agree well with the experimental data of the present study.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50290,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sediment Research","volume":"40 1","pages":"Pages 108-118"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143143194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Binh Quang Nguyen , Sameh A. Kantoush , Ngoc Duong Vo , Tetsuya Sumi
{"title":"Framework for reservoir sedimentation estimation using the hydrological model and campaign—A case study of A Vuong reservoir in central Vietnam","authors":"Binh Quang Nguyen , Sameh A. Kantoush , Ngoc Duong Vo , Tetsuya Sumi","doi":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2024.11.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2024.11.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sediment estimation would help practice sustainable watershed management and efficient reservoir operation. Different methods exist to estimate reservoir sedimentation based on the differences in sediment yield flowing in and releasing from the reservoir and successive bathymetric field measurements. This paper investigates the variability in sediment yield from watersheds and sedimentation in the A Vuong reservoir in central Vietnam using the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) compared with bathymetry mapping. Bathymetry data were collected in 2003, 2015, and 2021 and conducted in 2022. SWAT was calibrated from 1996 to 2008 and validated from 2009 to 2020 using monthly observations. SWAT performs well and can accurately simulate monthly streamflow and sediment yield. The goodness-of-fit analyses suggested that the area list representation of the watershed behavior and satisfactory Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE = 0.86) values for streamflow were obtained during the calibration and validation periods. For sediment simulation, the efficiency is lower than streamflow's, with NSE in the validation values of 0.61. The results showed that the sedimentation estimate from the SWAT model is smaller than that from bathymetry. A Vuong reservoir's annual storage capacity loss due to sedimentation accumulation from the SWAT model and bathymetry was 0.08% and 0.38%, respectively. Based on the bathymetry data, we estimated that the average rate of sedimentation deposition of A Vuong reservoir was 1.3 Mm<sup>3</sup>/y. The average calculated net deposition value was 4.3 m (0.3 m per year) within fourteen years of operation. The study outcomes demonstrated that the framework approach may transfer to an ungauged catchment and address the complex sedimentation problem in tropical regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50290,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sediment Research","volume":"40 1","pages":"Pages 78-90"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143143199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Houda Lamane , Latifa Mouhir , Rachid Moussadek , Bouamar Baghdad , Ozgur Kisi , Ali El Bilali
{"title":"Interpreting machine learning models based on SHAP values in predicting suspended sediment concentration","authors":"Houda Lamane , Latifa Mouhir , Rachid Moussadek , Bouamar Baghdad , Ozgur Kisi , Ali El Bilali","doi":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2024.10.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2024.10.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Machine learning (ML) has become a powerful tool for predicting suspended sediment concentration (SSC). Nonetheless, the ability to interpret the physical process is considered the main issue in applying most of ML approaches. In this regard, the current study presents a novel framework involving four standalone ML models (extra trees (ET), random forest (RF), categorical boosting (CatBoost), and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost)) and their combination with genetic programming (GP). Three metrics (coefficient of correlation (<em>r</em>), root mean square error (RMSE), and Nash–Sutcliffe model-fit efficiency (NSE)) and a more advanced interpretation system SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) are used to assess the performance of these models applied to hydro-climatic datasets for prediction of SSC. The calibration process was based on data from 2016 to 2020, and the validation was done for 2021 data. Further description and application of the framework are provided based on a case study of the Bouregreg watershed. The results revealed that all implemented models are efficient in SSC prediction with NSE, RMSE, and <em>r</em> varying from 0.53 to 0.86, 1.20–2.55 g/L, and 0.83–0.91 g/L respectively. Box plot diagrams confirm the enhanced performance of these combined models, and the best-performing ones for the four hydrological stations being the combined RF + GP model at the Aguibat Ziar station, the combined XGBoost + GP model at the Ain Loudah station, the CatBoost model at the Ras Fathia station, and the RF model at the Sidi M<sup>ed</sup> Cherif station. The interpretability results showed that flow (<em>Q</em>) and seasonality (<em>S</em>) are the features most impacting SSC. These outcomes indicate that the applied models can extract accurate and detailed information from the interactions between the hydroclimatic factors and the generation of sediment by erosion (output). ML approaches illustrated the good reliability and transparency of the models developed for predicting SSC in a semi-arid setting, offered new perspectives for reducing ML models' “black box” character, and provided a useful source of information for assessing the consequences of SSC on water quality. The SHAP system and exploring other interpretable techniques are recommended to provide further information in future research. In addition, incorporating additional input data could enhance SSC predictions and deepen understanding of sediment transport dynamics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50290,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sediment Research","volume":"40 1","pages":"Pages 91-107"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143143201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inferring sediment deposition trend in data scared wetland impacted by degraded urban catchment","authors":"Bhaswatee Baishya, Arup Kumar Sarma","doi":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2024.10.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2024.10.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The reduction in water retention capacity due to sedimentation in wetlands poses a serious threat to the ecology of this imperative freshwater resource. This also increases the risk of flooding in the river catchment areas that feed these wetlands. Sediments are mostly produced by unplanned development and hillcutting in upstream catchments. Henceforth, it is crucial to understand the trend in sediment deposition to determine management measures. However, measuring sediment deposition in wetlands is challenging. This study investigates a novel and cost-effective approach to discover trends in sediment deposition within wetlands via geospatial techniques and compares their water extents in the Deepor Beel Wetland, a Ramsar site in Assam, India. The water spread areas were assessed via supervised classified Landsat images and the band rationing technique, i.e., the normalized difference pond index (NDPI). This study establishes that sedimentation causes the water level in wetlands to rise, resulting in an increase in the area of water spread. This often suggests that the lean period water volume is increasing, indicating better health of the stream-wetland ecosystem. However, this apparent increase in water volume is actually due to the displacement of water by the sediment that has been deposited on the bed over time. This approach has identified a reduction in the water holding capacity of the wetland to 9.19 million m<sup>3</sup> in 18 years by utilizing geospatially derived water spread and elevation data from two years (2003 and 2021) with comparable rainfall. In the absence of recent and past years with comparable precipitation, the proposed method can still be applied by adjusting the apparent increase in volume by considering the difference in the net inflow volume between the two years of interest. The results of sediment transport toward the wetland, as computed by the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model while accounting for the sediment retention rate of the wetland, strongly agree with the proposed approach. The present approach can be extended to similar stream-wetland ecosystems to examine sediment dynamics and help create better management strategies for wetlands and associated catchment conservation and restoration.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50290,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sediment Research","volume":"40 1","pages":"Pages 129-145"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143143623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dawid Aleksander Szatten , Oleksandr Obodovskyi , Marta Brzezińska
{"title":"Erosive stability channel factor for Brda River (Poland): A key assessment of the human impact of the catchment changes","authors":"Dawid Aleksander Szatten , Oleksandr Obodovskyi , Marta Brzezińska","doi":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2024.11.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2024.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The stability of river channels results from the impact of spatially diversified natural characteristics of the catchment, which are additionally intensified by the pressure of human activities. The aim of the current study was the overall assessment of the riverbed stability in the Brda River catchment (Poland) in the two periods 1980–1989 and 1991–2018. The study area is characterized by a high discharge regularity, resulting from the river-lake system in the upper part of the catchment, and strong human pressure caused by the presence of hydrotechnical structures in the middle and lower parts of the catchment. The hydrological, sedimentological, and land cover archival data were used in the current study. Also, in the field campaign, the characteristics of the river channel were delimited. Finally, the erosive stability channel factor is proposed, reflecting the level of pressure on the fluvial system from the catchment. The results show that in the first period, there was a tendency to accumulate sediment on the riverbed, resulting in its instability. However, in the second period, the river channel was stable, and erosion and sedimentation processes did not occur. The links between the stability of the bed of the Brda River, and the temporal and area-related pressures made it possible to identify long-term trends in the degradation of the fluvial environment as a result of human activities and to indicate the directions for sustainable sediment management in the catchment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50290,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sediment Research","volume":"40 1","pages":"Pages 146-157"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143143624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wenbo Zhu , Yan Lu , Chengyang Zhou , Yongjun Lu , Pan Wu , Liqin Zuo , Tingjie Huang , Huaiqian Xiao
{"title":"Experimental investigation into flow resistance of large benthic crab burrows in the Yellow River Delta, China","authors":"Wenbo Zhu , Yan Lu , Chengyang Zhou , Yongjun Lu , Pan Wu , Liqin Zuo , Tingjie Huang , Huaiqian Xiao","doi":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2024.11.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2024.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The current study investigates the impact of burrowing activities by crab species in the tidal flats of the Yellow River Delta in China on the hydraulic resistance characteristics of water flow, particularly the regulatory effect of biological activity on hydraulic parameters. Although there are many models that attempt to describe the resistance to water flow, these models tend to ignore the influence of such things as biological structures, geomorphological features, and artificial constructs in complex natural water bodies, resulting in insufficient predictive accuracy of the resistance coefficients and Manning's roughness coefficients. In this paper, a new theoretical model is developed to achieve the construction of a model for predicting the hydrodynamic resistance characteristics of crab-hole regions affected by water flow by introducing a cross-sectional area correction coefficient to improve the accuracy of the calculation. The experimental results show that there is a significant positive correlation between the drag coefficient, and the hydraulic radius, and cave density, and a negative correlation with the Reynolds number, and the modification for the sidewall and bed effect greatly improves the representativeness of the measured data. In addition, a new theoretical model is proposed to improve the prediction of drag and Manning's roughness coefficient, and the prediction results are in good agreement with the measured data. The improved drag coefficient calculation model proposed in this paper improves the applicability to the research object and helps to establish a more accurate hydrodynamic model.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50290,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sediment Research","volume":"40 1","pages":"Pages 182-191"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143144179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
El Mehdi Chagdali , Kamal El Kadi Abderrezzak , Sébastien Erpicum , Cédric Goeury , Matthieu Secher , Benjamin Dewals
{"title":"Flow patterns in shallow rectangular reservoirs with open channel inlet or pipe flow inlet at various depths: An experimental study","authors":"El Mehdi Chagdali , Kamal El Kadi Abderrezzak , Sébastien Erpicum , Cédric Goeury , Matthieu Secher , Benjamin Dewals","doi":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2025.01.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijsrc.2025.01.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study experimentally assesses the influence of varying the inlet boundary condition on the flow patterns in rectangular shallow reservoirs. Two types of inlet boundary conditions were compared: a free surface inlet channel, and a pressurized circular inlet jet positioned at three different elevations over the flow depth (centroid of the inlet jet situated at 25%, 50%, or 75% of the flow depth). The outlet boundary condition was a free surface channel in all cases. Twenty-two experiments were done with two distinct reservoir lengths (length-to-width ratios of 1.1 and 2.0) and three hydraulic boundary conditions (Froude numbers of 0.14, 0.16, and 0.21). Velocity fields were measured with Large-Scale Particle Image Velocimetry (LSPIV) at the surface, and with an Acoustic Doppler Velocity Profiler (ADVP) at several cross sections. The flow patterns are greatly influenced by the inlet boundary condition and the reservoir geometry, but to a lesser extent by the hydraulic boundary condition. For an inlet circular jet located near the reservoir bottom, an unstable flow type, changing over time in a chaotic manner, was observed regardless of the reservoir length and of the inlet flow rate. The same type of unstable flow pattern was observed for a relatively long reservoir and the lowest tested flow rate, irrespective of the vertical positioning of the inlet jet. In all other tested configurations, a steady reattached jet was found in the reservoir equipped with a pressurized inlet jet. In addition to providing new knowledge on flow patterns in shallow reservoirs with an inlet jet, the experimental data presented here will prove valuable for evaluating flow computational models.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50290,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sediment Research","volume":"40 2","pages":"Pages 209-221"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143601190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}