Publications by authors named "Heqin Cheng"

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  • Land loss in estuarine areas has worsened recently due to decreased sediment transport from the Yangtze River, especially between 2009 and 2022.
  • This study investigates how changes in erosion and deposition conditions at the Yangtze River Estuary impact the concentration of suspended sediment, aiming to inform better management strategies.
  • Findings reveal that the estuary has shifted from deposition to net erosion for the first time since 1958, with significant erosion rates and variability in suspended sediment concentration linked to human activities and environmental factors.
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Accurate air quality index (AQI) prediction is essential in environmental monitoring and management. Given that previous studies neglect the importance of uncertainty estimation and the necessity of constraining the output during prediction, we proposed a new hybrid model, namely TMSSICX, to forecast the AQI of multiple cities. Firstly, time-varying filtered based empirical mode decomposition (TVFEMD) was adopted to decompose the AQI sequence into multiple internal mode functions (IMF) components.

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The world's largest hydropower dam, the Three Gorges Dam (TGD), spans the upper Yangtze River in China, creating a 660-km long and 1.1-km wide reservoir upstream. Several recent studies reported a considerable decline in sediment load of the Lowermost Yangtze River (LmYR) and a rapid erosion in the subaqueous delta of the river mouth after the closure of the TGD in 2003.

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Riverbed scour of bridge piers can cause rapid loss in foundation strength, leading to sudden bridge collapse. This study used multi-beam echo sounders (Seabat 7125) to map riverbed surrounding the foundations of four major bridges in the lower, middle, and upper reaches of the 700-km Yangtze River Estuary (YRE) during June 2015 and September 2016. The high-resolution data were utilized to analyze the morphology of the bridge scour and the deformation of the wide-area riverbed (i.

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