Atmospheric stilling leads to prolonged thermal stratification in a large shallow polymictic lake

Climatic Change

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 759-773

  Woolway, R Iestyn ^a   Meinson, Pille ^b   Nõges, Peeter ^b   Jones, Ian ^c   Laas, Alo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; LAKES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MODEL SIMULATION; PROCESS-BASED MODELING; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE WATER TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND SPEED; WATER TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOTTOM WATER; CLIMATE CHANGE; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHALLOW WATER; STRATIFICATION; SURFACE WATER; SURFACE WIND; WATER TEMPERATURE; WIND VELOCITY;

ESTONIA; LAKE VORTSJARV;

EID: 85011672180     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-017-1909-0     Document Type: Article

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