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An important function of the dam is to control flooding, which is a major problem for the seasonal river of the Yangtze. Millions of people live downstream of the dam, with many large, important cities like Wuhan , Nanjing , and Shanghai located adjacent to the river.
23 lip 2020 · The image at the top of this page shows water moving through the gates of Three Gorges Dam. Spanning a segment of the Yangtze River in central China’s Hubei Province, the dam is 2300 meters long and stands 185 meters high. The second image shows the smaller Gezhouba Dam, located about 26 kilometers (16 miles) southeast from Three Gorges.
The successful multi-model ensemble forecasts confirm that the Yangtze flooding of 2020 was due to coupled ocean-atmospheric processes, anchored by oceanic Rossby waves in the South Indian Ocean.
18 lut 2022 · Five severe floods occurred in the Yangtze River Basin, China, between July and August 2020, and the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) located in the middle Yangtze River experienced the highest...
Overview: The Three Gorges Dam site is 27 miles upstream from Yichang City proper, at Sandouping Town, 38km upstream from the Gezhouba Dam Lock, inside the third of the Three Gorges. It is planned to be by far the largest hydroelectric project in the world.
1 sty 2022 · The remote-sensing monitoring map of flood disasters in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River was provided by National Earth Observation Data Center. Basic geographic data, such as administrative divisions and rivers, was obtained from the National Basic Geographic Information Center.
Four severe flood sections of the Yangtze River (Yueyang, Hankou, Jiujiang, Chizhou) are taken as study objects. Yueyang and Hankou sections are in the middle reach and the Jiujiang and Chizhou section are in the lower section.
