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It is also the only channel for the transportation of materials from the Yellow River to the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea. The supply of suspended sediment from the Bohai Sea plays a decisive role in the evolution of the mud area in the northern Yellow Sea and even the muddy area in the southern Yellow Sea. Previous studies have demonstrated that sediment exchange through the Bohai Strait occurs mainly in winter, but due to the lack of long-term observational data, changes in the sediment flux over multiple years have not been studied. In this paper, based on L1B data from the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) -Aqua satellite, an interannual time series of the suspended sediment concentration (SSC) at each depth layers in the Bohai Strait in winter was established through 16 cruises that benefited from the complete vertical mixing water in the strait in winter. The numerical model FVCOM, (Finite-Volume Community Ocean Model) which is forced by the hourly averaged wind field, reflected the effect of winter gales. With the model simulated winter current from 2002 to the present and the SSC at each layer, multi-year winter suspended sediment flux data were obtained for the Bohai Strait. This study found that in the winter, the suspended sediment output from the Bohai Sea to the Yellow Sea through the southern part of the Bohai Strait, while the suspended sediment input from the Yellow Sea to the Bohai Sea is through the northern part. In terms of long-term changes, the net flux ranged between 1.22 to 2.70 million tons in winter and showed a weak downward trend. The output flux and input flux both showed an upward trend, but the increase rate of the input flux was 51,100 tons\/year, which was higher than the increase of the output flux rate (46,100 tons\/year). These changes were mainly controlled by the increasing strength of east component of winter wind. 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