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Hongbo Ma
Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University
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The Scaling Regimes of Distributary Delta Networks
FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENTARY SYSTEMS: SEDIMENT TRANSPORT DYNAMICS, DEPOSITIONAL PATTERNS, MORPHOLOGIC EXPRESSIONS, AND CLIMATE IMPACT II ORAL
earth and planetary surface processes | 14 december 2023
Tian Y. Dong, Lawrence M. Vulis, Alejandro Tejedor...
Delta channel networks (DCNs) provide critical ecosystem service and nourish populated coastal landscapes. Mitigating climate change-induced deltaic l...
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Follow the rhythm of a river as it dances: leveraging silt-rich river systems as the fast-play for process-based insights of river-climate-human interactions
ROBERT SHARP LECTURE
earth and planetary surface processes | 14 december 2023
Hongbo Ma
Rivers, upholding our modern civilizations, constantly change their shapes. The challenge of understanding their short- and long-term geomorphic evolu...
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New Two-layer Formulation for Long-Runout Turbidity Currents
FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENTARY SYSTEMS: SEDIMENT TRANSPORT DYNAMICS, DEPOSITIONAL PATTERNS, MORPHOLOGIC EXPRESSIONS, AND CLIMATE IMPACT II ORAL
earth and planetary surface processes | 14 december 2023
Gary Parker, Hongbo Ma, Norihiro Izumi, Toshiki Iw...
Turbidity currents carrying mud and sand can sculpt leveed channels over distances of 100s or 1000s of km. To date, the modeling of turbidity of curre...
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Observations of self-accelerating turbidity currents and their application in the Xiaolangdi Reservoir, Yellow River, China
FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENTARY SYSTEMS: SEDIMENT TRANSPORT DYNAMICS, DEPOSITIONAL PATTERNS, MORPHOLOGIC EXPRESSIONS, AND CLIMATE IMPACT I POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 14 december 2023
Hongbo Ma, Gefei Deng, Xingyu Chen, Jeffrey A. Nit...
Turbidity currents (TC) are an important mechanism for delivering sediment to depositional basins, whether the basin be a lake, reservoir, or ocean. H...
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Growing or Stagnant? Predict the kinematic status of a deltaic distributary channel network with a single hydrodynamic variable
PREDICTING THE FATE OF RIVER DELTAS AND COASTAL WETLANDS: OBSERVATIONS, MODELING, AND EXPERIMENTATION II ORAL
earth and planetary surface processes | 13 december 2023
Hongbo Ma, Lawrence M. Vulis, John Shaw, Alejandro...
Distributary channel networks (DCNs) are veins of river deltas, conveying water, nutrients, and sediment to receiving basins, such as oceans and lakes...
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River Delta Morphotypes Emerge From Multiscale Characterization of Shorelines
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
04 april 2023
Lawrence M. Vulis, Alejandro Tejedor, Hongbo Ma, J...
Delta shoreline structure has long been hypothesized to encode information on the relative influence of fluvial, wave, and tidal processes on delta...
Impacts of Tectonic Subsidence on Basin Depth and Delta Lobe Building
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: EARTH SURFACE
03 february 2023
Tian Y. Dong, Jeffrey A. Nittrouer, Brandee Carlso...
Channel avulsions on river deltas are the primary means to distribute sediment and build land at the coastline. Many studies have detailed how avul...
Simulating Suspended Sediment in Large U.S. Rivers combining Artificial Intelligence and Earth System modeling approaches
BASIN TO GLOBAL SCALE RIVER PROCESSES IN THE ANTHROPOCENE I ORAL
hydrology | 16 december 2022
Hong-Yi Li, Guta W. Abeshu, Zeli Tan, Zhenduo Zhu,...
Simulating suspended sediment discharge in large river systems has been challenging, particularly regarding effective parameterization and accounting ...
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