• DOI:10.1038/nature19809
Corpus ID: 205251150

Fluvial sediment supply to a mega-delta reduced by shifting tropical-cyclone activity

@article{Darby2016FluvialSS,
  title={Fluvial sediment supply to a mega-delta reduced by shifting tropical-cyclone activity},
  author={S. Darby and C. Hackney and J. Leyland and M. Kummu and H. Lauri and D. Parsons and J. Best and A. Nicholas and R. Aalto},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2016},
  volume={539},
  pages={276-279}
}

• S. Darby, C. Hackney, +6 authors R. Aalto
• Published 2016
• Environmental Science, Medicine
• Nature

The world’s rivers deliver 19 billion tonnes of sediment to the coastal zone annually, with a considerable fraction being sequestered in large deltas, home to over 500 million people. Most (more than 70 per cent) large deltas are under threat from a combination of rising sea levels, ground surface subsidence and anthropogenic sediment trapping, and a sustainable supply of fluvial sediment is therefore critical to prevent deltas being ‘drowned’ by rising relative sea levels. Here we combine… Expand

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