Entrainment, annual circulation and groundwater inflow in a chain of lakes as inferred by stable 18O isotopic signatures in the water column

Journal of Limnology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 278-286

  Braig, Emanuel ^a   Welzl, Gerhard ^b   Stichler, Willibald ^b   Raeder, Uta ^a   Melzer, Arnulf ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Circulation; Entrainment; Meromixis; Schmidt stability; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ENTRAINMENT; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INFLOW; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAKE WATER; MEROMIXIS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; STABLE ISOTOPE; STRATIFICATION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER COLUMN;

BAVARIA; GERMANY; MUNICH;

EID: 77956960590     PISSN: 11295767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/jlimnol.2010.278     Document Type: Article

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