Differential cooling drives large-scale convective circulation in Lake Tanganyika

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 910-926

  Verburg, Piet ^a   Antenucci, Jason P ^b   Hecky, Robert E ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; EPILIMNION; FLOW VELOCITY; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMIDITY; MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRADE WIND; WIND VELOCITY;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE TANGANYIKA;

EID: 79956344947     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.3.0910     Document Type: Article

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