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09 May 2023
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Impacts of human modifications on material transport in deltas
Jayaram Hariharan
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Center for Water and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Kyle Wright
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Center for Water and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Andrew Moodie
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Center for Water and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Nelson Tull
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Center for Water and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Paola Passalacqua
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Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Center for Water and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
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There is rising concern in numerous fields regarding the inequitable distribution of human risk to floods. The co-occurrence of river and surface flooding is largely excluded from leading flood hazard mapping services, therefore underestimating hazards. Using high-resolution elevation data and a region-specific social vulnerability index, we developed a method to estimate flood impacts at the household level in near-real time.
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Short summary
We simulate the transport of material through numerically simulated river deltas under natural and human-modified (embankment construction and channel dredging) scenarios to understand their impacts on material transport. Human modifications reduce the total area visited by passive particles and alter the amount of time spent within the delta relative to natural conditions. This work can help us understand how future construction may impact land building or ecosystem restoration projects.
We simulate the transport of material through numerically simulated river deltas under natural...
