Response of Lake Kivu stratification to lava inflow and climate warming

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 778-783

  Lorke, Andreas ^a,d   Tietze, Klaus ^b   Halbwachs, Michel ^c   Wüest, Alfred ^a  

^a Limnological Research Center   (Switzerland)

^b Physik Des Technik Sensorik C   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAKE; STRATIFICATION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WATER COLUMN;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE KIVU; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 2942536243     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.3.0778     Document Type: Article

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