“…Given the economic, engineering, and geological significance of deltaic distributaries, considerable effort has been devoted to identifying the parameters that influence morphological stability at bifurcations. These include the width ratio of the two downstream branches (Bolla Pittaluga et al, ; Edmonds & Slingerland, ; Kleinhans et al, ), a gradient advantage making one bifurcate the preferential flow route (Marra et al, ), climate‐driven changes in basinwide discharge (Edmonds et al, ), and secondary flow structures produced by meanders or bedforms upstream of the bifurcation (Kleinhans et al, ; Miori et al, ; Sassi et al, ). Tidal energy further influences bifurcation behavior by inhibiting sediment deposition in non‐dominant distributaries (Kästner et al, ), modulating discharge partitioning among the downstream branches (Buschman et al, ; Sassi et al, ; Zhang et al, ), and introducing baroclinically driven circulation between the bifurcates if the system is poorly mixed (Buschman et al, ; Kim & Voulgaris, ; Shaha & Cho, ).…”