Simulating 2368 temperate lakes reveals weak coherence in stratification phenology

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 291, Issue , 2014, Pages 142-150

  Read, Jordan S ^a   Winslow, Luke A ^b   Hansen, Gretchen J A ^b,c   Van Den Hoek, Jamon ^d   Hanson, Paul C ^b   Bruce, Louise C ^e   Markfort, Corey D ^f  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coherence; Lake temperature modeling; Limnology; Stratification; Water temperature

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COHERENT LIGHT; LIMNOLOGY; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

DAILY TEMPERATURES; LAKE CHARACTERISTICS; LAKE TEMPERATURES; MECHANISTIC STUDIES; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE LAYER TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WATER TEMPERATURES;

LAKES;

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LIMNOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOLOGY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84906500497     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.07.029     Document Type: Article

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