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Sedimentation processes of suspended matter supplied from the Huanghe (Yellow River) and the Changjiang are investigated with the use of a three-dimensional numerical model of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea which includes the tidal current, residual flow and wind waves. Suspended matter supplied from the Huanghe mainly deposits in the Bohai Sea and that from the old river mouth of the Huanghe and from the Changjiang in the central part of the Yellow Sea or south of Cheju Island. The calculated results well reproduce the observed sedimentation pattern qualitatively except for the offshore area of the southeastern coast of China.
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Yanagi, T., Inoue, Ki. A numerical experiment on the sedimentation processes in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea. J Oceanogr 51, 537–552 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02270523
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