Climate change impacts on lake thermal dynamics and ecosystem vulnerabilities

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 496-507

  Sahoo, G B ^a   Forrest, A L ^a,b   Schladow, S G ^a   Reuter, J E ^a   Coats, R ^a   Dettinger, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FLOW STABILITY; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAKE DYNAMICS; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MIXING; STRATIFICATION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; VULNERABILITY; WARMING; WATER COLUMN;

LAKE TAHOE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84960312774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lno.10228     Document Type: Article

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