The Ayeyarwady River (Myanmar) : washload transport and its global role among rivers in the Anthropocene

• Main Authors: Latrubesse, Edgardo M., Park, Edward, Kästner, Karl
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Science::Geology; Myanmar; Remote Sensing
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152025
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) is the second largest river of Southeast Asia and one of the rivers with the highest load of suspended sediment delivered to the sea in the world. The Ayeyarwady is the lifeline of Myanmar which concentrates the majority of the population and GDP of the country. It is the...