Excess warming of a Central European lake driven by solar brightening

Water Resources Research

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 8103-8116

  Schmid, M ^a   Koster O ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b Zurich Water Supply   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

air temperature; climate change; lakes; solar brightening

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; LAKES; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANALYSIS AND MODELING; LAKE SURFACE TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; SOLAR BRIGHTENING; SURFACE HEAT BUDGET; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WATER TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ASSIMILATION; HEAT BUDGET; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAKE WATER; MODEL VALIDATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SUMMER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

SWITZERLAND; ZURICHSEE;

EID: 85053361606     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016WR018651     Document Type: Article

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