Human activities have changed the shapes of river deltas

Title

Human activities have changed the shapes of river deltas

 Author

van de Giesen, N.C. (TU Delft Water Resources) ORCID 0000-0002-7200-3353

 Date

2020

 Abstract

A model has been devised that quantitatively describes how the shape of a river delta is affected by sediments, tides and waves. It reveals that the area of delta land is increasing globally, as a result of human activities upstream.

 Subject

Environmental sciences
Hydrology
Ocean sciences

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 DOI

https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00047-y

 Embargo date

2022-02-02

 ISSN

0028-0836

 Source

Nature: international weekly journal of science, 577 (7791), 473-474

 Bibliographical note

Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

journal article

 Rights

© 2020 N.C. van de Giesen
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