The exponent of the power law is >1, meaning that the mean depth is increasing with the surface area, which is in good agreement with previous observations (e.g., Larsen et al. 2010) and landslide models (Klar et al. 2011).
The area of the Yellow Sea proper (excluding the Bo Hai) is about 146,700 square miles (380,000 square km); its mean depth is 144 feet (44 metres), and its maximum depth is some 500 feet (152 metres).
Finally, an attempt to determine trends in the evolution of the morphology of the oxbows demonstrated that the overall maximum depth is significantly decreasing in the interior of the oxbow and that the mean depth is significantly increasing in the exterior cross-sections.
Its estimated mean depth is 100 m, and its highest point is measured at 2800 m.
However, more than 95% of all contigs possessed <4X coverage (see Table S1 for coverage distribution), and when contigs possessing ≥20X coverage were excluded, the mean depth was approximately 2.1X (SD = 1.31).
Nevertheless, more than 95% of all contigs possessed <5X coverage (See Table S5 for coverage distribution), and when contigs possessing ≥20X coverage were excluded, the mean depth was approximately 2.1X (SD = 1.45).
Most noticeably, the mean depth is not affected by the source-detector distance, being encoded solely in the time.
For this simulation mean depth was fixed at 2 which gave near optimal results in the previous simulation.
During scanning, the depth of the scratch is determined at various points along the scratch, and a mean depth is obtained.
Mean depth was not included in model evaluation as it was computed from, and hence, correlated to minimum depth (Spearman's ρ = 0.52).
