John Z. Shi

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed analysis of the variations in grain sizes of surface sediments and bed level, measured in the summer of 1999 at Nanhui mudflats, south flank of the Changjiang Delta, China.

TL;DR: In this paper, fine suspended sediment concentrations were measured for the periods August 1982 to July 1983, September 1992 to August 1993, August 1997 to July 1998, August 1998 to July 1999, and May 2002 to April 2003 from eight stations in the Changjiang River estuary and adjacent coastal waters, China.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized process-oriented field and numerical studies undertaken on the river plume in the partially-mixed Changjiang River estuary and revealed two important physical processes by acoustic imaging, i.e., the near-bed impulsive resuspension and the transport processes driven by fine sediment induced plumes during a spring tide.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors make use of time series of water level, current velocity, salinity and suspended sediment concentration at ten hydrological gauging stations along the North Passage in the Changjiang River estuary on 17 to 24 February and 12 to 18 August 2012, respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used acoustic backscatter measurements to infer continuous vertical profiles of suspended sediment concentration in turbid estuaries and identified three dominant physical processes: (1) the near-bed periodic resuspension by the tidal currents via tidal pumping; (2) the asymmetric stratifications due to fine suspension; and (3) the exchange of sediment between the bed and water column.