Impact of monsoonal climatic change on Holocene overbank flooding along Sushui River, middle reach of the Yellow River, China

Climate-dependent fluvial architecture and processes on a suborbital timescale in areas of rapid tectonic uplift: An example from the NE Tibetan Plateau

“…Peak discharges, causing flooding over the tops of the terraces during phases of strong summer monsoon, are also recorded by slack-water deposits over alluvial plains in the Huang He valley (e.g. Huang et al, 2007). Logically, we propose that the middle units (U2), the relatively lower-energy sand layers, were deposited during the waning of the cold periods.…”

Paleofloods recorded by slackwater deposits in the upper reaches of the Hanjiang River valley, middle Yangtze River basin, China

“…Being situated in the mid-latitude regions with a subtropical monsoonal climate, relatively subtle changes in the monsoon circulation patterns can produce major impacts on the recurrence frequencies of extreme events, such as the severe droughts resulting from the shortage of rainfall and extraordinary floods resulting from rainstorms (Knox, 2000;Huang et al, 2007).…”

“…These events are often connected with anomalous atmospheric circulation patterns and hydrological change in response to global climate change. Therefore, the data generated from paleoflood hydrology will facilitate an appropriate assessment of these flood events and the regional response of the hydrological system to global climatic change on long time scales (Knox, 2000;Huang et al, 2007Huang et al, , 2010. Paleoflood hydrology is an interdisciplinary science that includes sedimentary identification and the integrative dating of flood slackwater deposits in riverbanks, with the hydrological reconstruction of paleoflood peak stages and discharges (Baker, 1987(Baker, , 2006(Baker, , 2008.…”

Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoflood events recorded by slackwater deposits in the upper Hanjiang River valley, China

“…A reverse kind of scaling, extrapolating downward to rare, high-magnitude floods by using whatever evidence is preserved in nature, is used in palaeoflood hydrology (Baker, 2006(Baker, , 2008. Thus, the data generated from palaeoflood hydrology achieve a better estimate for large events and provide an interpretation of the regional response of the hydrological system to global climatic change at longer time scales (Knox, 2000;Huang et al, 2007Huang et al, , 2010a.…”