Factors affecting the development and dynamics of hypoxia in a large shallow stratified lake: Hourly to seasonal patterns

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2380-2394

  Bouffard, Damien ^a   Ackerman, Josef Daniel ^b   Boegman, Leon ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

field measurements; hypolimnetic oxygen demand; internal waves; Lake Erie; oxygen flux; sediment oxygen demand

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; OXYGEN; WATER QUALITY;

FIELD MEASUREMENT; INTERNAL WAVES; LAKE ERIE; OXYGEN FLUXES; SEDIMENT OXYGEN DEMAND;

LAKES;

FIELD METHOD; HYPOLIMNION; HYPOXIA; INTERNAL WAVE; LAKE WATER; OXYGEN; SEASONALITY; SHALLOW WATER; STRATIFICATION; THERMOCLINE; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER QUALITY;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE;

EID: 84879960713     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20241     Document Type: Article

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