Physical and chemical consequences of artificially deepened thermocline in a small humic lake - A paired whole-lake climate change experiment

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2629-2642

  Forsius, M ^a   Saloranta, T ^b   Arvola, L ^c   Salo, S ^a   Verta, M ^a   Ala Opas, P ^c   Rask, M ^d   Vuorenmaa, J ^a  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOREAL REGIONS; CHEMICAL CONDITIONS; CHEMICAL CONSEQUENCES; CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLOUD COVER; DYSTROPHIC LAKES; HEAT BALANCE; HEAT CONTENTS; HYDROLOGICAL CONDITION; ICE COVERED PERIODS; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MODEL SIMULATION; OXIC WATERS; SEDIMENT SURFACE; SOUTHERN FINLAND; SPATIAL EXTENT; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL; WHOLE-LAKE; WIND SPEED;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; LAKES; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIC SEDIMENTS; OXYGEN; STREAM FLOW; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD COVER; HEAT BALANCE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; THERMOCLINE; WIND VELOCITY;

FINLAND; NORWAY;

EID: 78650558580     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-14-2629-2010     Document Type: Article

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