@article{qiao_yang_liu_sun_xiang_shi_fan_saito_2011, title={Records of late-Holocene East Asian winter monsoon in the East China Sea: Key grain-size component of quartz versus bulk sediments}, volume={230}, number={1-2}, journal={Quaternary International}, author={Qiao, S. Q. and Yang, Z. S. and Liu, J. P. and Sun, X. X. and Xiang, R. and Shi, X. F. and Fan, D. J. and Saito, Y.}, year={2011}, pages={106–114} }
 @article{wang_yang_saito_liu_sun_2006, title={Interannual and seasonal variation of the Huanghe (Yellow River) water discharge over the past 50 years: Connections to impacts from ENSO events and dams}, volume={50}, ISSN={0921-8181}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.01.005}, DOI={10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.01.005}, abstractNote={The Huanghe, the second largest river in China, is now under great pressure as a water resource. Using datasets of river water discharge, water consumption and regional precipitation for the past 50 years, we elucidate some connections between decreasing water discharges, global El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events and anthropogenic impacts in the drainage basin. Global ENSO events, which directly affected the regional precipitation in the river basin, resulted in approximately 51% decrease in river water discharge to the sea. The degree of anthropogenic impacts on river water discharge is now as great as that of natural influences, accelerating the water losses in the hydrological cycle. The large dams and reservoirs regulated the water discharge and reduced the peak flows by storing the water in the flood season and releasing it in the dry season as needed for agricultural irrigation. Thus, as a result, large dams and reservoirs have shifted the seasonal distribution patterns of water discharge and water consumption and finally resulted in rapidly increasing water consumption. Meanwhile, the annual distribution pattern of water consumption also changed under the regulation of dams and reservoirs, indicating that the people living in the river basin consume the water more and more to suit actual agricultural schedule rather than depending upon natural pattern of annual precipitation. The combination of the increasing water consumption facilitated by the dams and reservoirs and the decreasing precipitation closely associated with the global ENSO events over the past half century has resulted in water scarcity in this world-famous river, as well as in a number of subsequent serious results for the river, delta and coastal ocean.}, number={3-4}, journal={Global and Planetary Change}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={Wang, Houjie and Yang, Zuosheng and Saito, Yoshiki and Liu, J. Paul and Sun, Xiaoxia}, year={2006}, month={Apr}, pages={212–225} }
 @article{liu_milliman_gao_cheng_2004, title={Holocene development of the Yellow River's subaqueous delta, North Yellow Sea}, volume={209}, ISSN={0025-3227}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2004.06.009}, DOI={10.1016/j.margeo.2004.06.009}, abstractNote={High-resolution seismic profiles from the North Yellow Sea reveal a 20–40-m-thick subaqueous clinoform delta that wraps around the eastern end of the Shandong Peninsula, extending into the South Yellow Sea. This complex sigmoidal-oblique clinoform, containing an estimated 400 km3 of sediment, overlies prominent relict transgressive surfaces. The nearshore topset of the clinoform, <30-m water depth, has a ≪1:1000 gradient, with high sedimentation rates (210Pb) ∼6–12 mm/year. Foreset beds (30–50 m) dip seaward at a steeper gradient (2:1000) and have sedimentation rates ∼3 mm/year. Bottomset strata, in water depths >50 m, contain less than 1 m of Holocene sediment, with low sedimentation rates, <1 mm/year. In contrast to other clinoforms, the Shandong clinoform appears to be a compound subaqueous deltaic system, with what we interpret to be proximal and distal phases of clinoform development. The underlying proximal sequence formed proximally between ∼11 and 9.2 ka in response to a temporary pause in the rapid postglacial sea-level rise after the meltwater pulse 1B (MWP-1B) and increased discharge from the Yellow River to the North Yellow Sea due to intensification of the summer monsoon. A flooding surface appears to separate the proximal and distal phases, corresponding to the next rapid sea-level rise 9.5–9.2 ka BP (MWP-1C). Since 9.2 ka BP, an overlying distal sedimentary sequence has accumulated, reflecting the back-stepping and shifting river mouth westward to the Gulf of Bohai. Some inputs from coastal erosion and nearby small streams may be locally important. Along-shore transport, cross-shelf advection, and upwelling in the North Yellow Sea have reworked post-LGM sediment and have helped maintain the morphology of the clinoform in the Shandong mud wedge.}, number={1-4}, journal={Marine Geology}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={Liu, J.Paul and Milliman, John D. and Gao, Shu and Cheng, Peng}, year={2004}, month={Aug}, pages={45–67} }