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THREE CASE STUDIES OF LAKE TEMPERATURE AND STRATIFICATION RESPONSE TO WARMER CLIMATE
Citation:
Hondzo, M. AND H. Stephan. THREE CASE STUDIES OF LAKE TEMPERATURE AND STRATIFICATION RESPONSE TO WARMER CLIMATE. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/J-91/282.
Description:
The impact of climatic warming on lakes will most likely have serious implications for water resources and water quality. ather than using model predictions of greenhouse warming, this paper looks at the changes in heat balance and temperature profiles in a particularly warm year (1988) compared to a more normal one (1971). he comparisons are made for three different morphometrically different lakes located 45 degrees N latitude and 93 degrees W longitude (north central United States) and for the summer period (April 1 to October 31). ater temperatures are daily values simulated with a model driven by daily weather parameters and verified against several sets of measurements. he results show that in the warmer year epilimnetic water temperatures were higher, evaporative water loss increased, and summer stratification occurred earlier in the season.