Field study on currents in a shallow, ice‐covered lake
A field study on current structure and circulation characteristics in Lake Vendyurskoe, a small, shallow, icecovered lake in Karelia, Russia, is presented. The current velocity magnitudes were generally found to be small. The most pronounced currents had an oscillating character, with velocity ampli...
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crwiley:10.4319/lo.1998.43.7.1669 2024-09-15T18:16:19+00:00 Field study on currents in a shallow, ice‐covered lake Malm, Joakim Bengtsson, Lars Terzhevik, Arkady Boyarinov, Pjotr Glinsky, Alexander Palshin, Nikolaj Petrov, Michail 1998 http://dx.doi.org/10.4319/lo.1998.43.7.1669 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.4319%2Flo.1998.43.7.1669 https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.4319/lo.1998.43.7.1669 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Limnology and Oceanography volume 43, issue 7, page 1669-1679 ISSN 0024-3590 1939-5590 journal-article 1998 crwiley https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.1998.43.7.1669 2024-08-22T04:16:40Z A field study on current structure and circulation characteristics in Lake Vendyurskoe, a small, shallow, icecovered lake in Karelia, Russia, is presented. The current velocity magnitudes were generally found to be small. The most pronounced currents had an oscillating character, with velocity amplitudes on the order of millimeters per second. The oscillation period, obtained from spectral density calculations, corresponded to that of a barotropic uninodal seiche. The seichelike nature of the current oscillations was supported by the results from analysis of icelevel fluctuations, giving identical periods and a phase shift of one‐fourth the period between the two types of oscillations. Mean currents measured during the winter were on the order of millimeters per second. Because Lake Vendyurskoe does not have any significant river inflow or outflow during winter, the most probable cause of these currents is horizontal temperature (pressure) gradients. Scaling analysis indicated that these currents are geostrophic. This was supported by theoretical estimates, based on observed horizontal temperature gradients, being of the same order as the observed currents. The mean current velocities increased considerably after spring convection from <1 to several millimeters per second. Article in Journal/Newspaper karelia* Wiley Online Library Limnology and Oceanography 43 7 1669 1679 |
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A field study on current structure and circulation characteristics in Lake Vendyurskoe, a small, shallow, icecovered lake in Karelia, Russia, is presented. The current velocity magnitudes were generally found to be small. The most pronounced currents had an oscillating character, with velocity amplitudes on the order of millimeters per second. The oscillation period, obtained from spectral density calculations, corresponded to that of a barotropic uninodal seiche. The seichelike nature of the current oscillations was supported by the results from analysis of icelevel fluctuations, giving identical periods and a phase shift of one‐fourth the period between the two types of oscillations. Mean currents measured during the winter were on the order of millimeters per second. Because Lake Vendyurskoe does not have any significant river inflow or outflow during winter, the most probable cause of these currents is horizontal temperature (pressure) gradients. Scaling analysis indicated that these currents are geostrophic. This was supported by theoretical estimates, based on observed horizontal temperature gradients, being of the same order as the observed currents. The mean current velocities increased considerably after spring convection from <1 to several millimeters per second. |
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Malm, Joakim Bengtsson, Lars Terzhevik, Arkady Boyarinov, Pjotr Glinsky, Alexander Palshin, Nikolaj Petrov, Michail Field study on currents in a shallow, ice‐covered lake |
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Malm, Joakim Bengtsson, Lars Terzhevik, Arkady Boyarinov, Pjotr Glinsky, Alexander Palshin, Nikolaj Petrov, Michail |
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Field study on currents in a shallow, ice‐covered lake |
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Field study on currents in a shallow, ice‐covered lake |
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