Taming the Yellow River: Silt and Floods

Abstract

American soil and water conservation policy.- Measuring the benefits of water quality improvement: recent U.S. practice.- Wash load, autosuspensions and hyperconcentrations.- An outline for planning development of river basins: a regional approach.- New research directions in agricultural hydrology and erosion.- Expert systems and river basin management.- Sediment yield variations as a function of incised channel evolution.- Synthesis of data on bed configurations in alluvial channels, and the effect of water temperature and suspended-load concentration.- Erosion control and reservoir deposition.- Flood forecasting and its reliability.- Remarks.- The importance of Yellow River safety and the urgency of research for its control.- Temporal and spatial distribution of heavy rain in the middle and lower reaches of the Huanghe river.- Some problems of flooding and its prevention in the lower Yellow River.- Simulation of flood propagation in channel of the Yellow River by convection-diffusion equation.- A general survey of problems in flood study on the lower reach of the Yellow River.- Fluvial processes of the lower Yellow River and estimation of flood conditions.- The temporal and spatial variation of erosion and sediment yield on the Loess Plateau.- Study of counter measures for the Yellow River regulation and flood prevention.- A story of soil loss and soil degradation on the Loess Plateau in China.- On the strategy of harnessing the Yellow River.- The prospects of flood control measures on the lower Yellow River.- Tentative ideas for controlling the aggradation of the lower Yellow River in the near and remote future.- The proper measures for flood management and water resources exploitation on the Yellow River.- Yellow River sediment problems and synopsis on the strategy of harnessing the river.- Discussion of the lifespan of the present channel of the lower Yellow River.- Study on and assessment of flood prevention measures on the lower Yellow River.- Flood characteristics and design flood for flood protection in lower Yellow River.- Flood forecasting and flood warning system in the lower Yellow River.- Ice floods on the lower reach of the Yellow River and measures for ice flood prevention.- Current utilization and future prospects of water resources of the Yellow River.- Sedimentation in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and its basic laws.- Harnessing and development of the Loess Plateau in the middle reaches of the Yellow River.- Assessment of sediment reduction due to upland water and soil conservation works in the Yellow River.- Evolution of the course of the lower Yellow River in past history.- Review of measures for reducing sedimentation of the lower Yellow River.- Estimate of reduction in deposition in lower Yellow River by warping on floodplains.- Effects and significance of water and sediment regulation by reservoirs in the middle Yellow River.- Effects of river training works on flood control.- Improvement of the mouth of the Yellow River and sediment disposal.- Sediment problems in diverting water-to-water supply in the lower Yellow River.- Synopsis of the west-route project of south-to-north water transfer from the Yangtze to the Yellow River.- Postface.