“…To understand the effects of estuarine dams on estuarine environments, a series of related studies have been reported in the literature (Lavıń and Sańchez, 1999;Van Proosdij et al, 2009), where the characteristics of salinity gradients and estuarine circulation were analyzed in the presence of estuarine dams. Other studies focusing primarily on the dam-controlled freshwater fluxes using extensive field hydrodynamics data and numerical models of tidal currents in shallow estuaries showed that estuarine environments were significantly influenced by river discharge, tidal range, wind and dams (Kim et al, 2006;Xia et al, 2011;Kang et al, 2017;Prasad et al, 2018;Ahn et al, 2020). Similarly, after dam construction, series of ship-borne surveys using ADCPs and CTD instruments were used to investigate the role of the dam-induced horizontal salinity gradient in stratification and sediment dynamics, which helped to understand the response of estuarine systems to seasonal and tidal controls (Figueroa et al, 2020;Figueroa et al, 2022).…”