What is it about?
The Lower Tisza River, a lowland alluvial river in Hungary has been the subject of intense human interventions. To understand the impacts of these interventions, the changes in the depth along the river over a 108-year period is analyzed using data from hydrological surveys and atlas of the river.
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Why is it important?
It highlights the changes along the channel's bed over the period under consideration. These changes have implications for river management, and engineering structures. Most importantly is the impact on river flooding which threatens both nature and humans.
Perspectives
This article has singled the impact of human interventions on depth which is significant for an alluvial river with levees and revetments. I hope it generates more targeted research into depth conditions.
Gabriel Amissah
University of Szeged
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This page is a summary of: Centurial Changes in the Depth Conditions of a Regulated River: Case Study of the Lower Tisza River, Hungary, Journal of Environmental Geography, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/jengeo-2017-0005.
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