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Main Title Nonlinear Internal Waves in Lakes [electronic resource] /
Type EBOOK
Author Hutter, Kolumban.
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
Year Published 2012
Call Number QC801-809
ISBN 9783642234385
Subjects Geography ; Physical geography ; Mechanics ; Marine Sciences
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23438-5
Collation XVI, 280 p. online resource.
Notes
Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes
Internal Waves in Lakes: Generation, Transformation, Meromixis -- Field Studies of Non-linear Internal Waves in Lakes on the Globe -- Laboratory Modelling on Transformation of Large Amplitude Internal Waves by Topographic Obstructions -- Numerical Simulations of the Non-hydrostatic Transformation of Basic-scale Internal Gravity Waves and Wave-Enhanced Meromixis in Lakes. Internal wave dynamics in lakes (and oceans) is an important physical component of geophysical fluid mechanics of 'quiescent' water bodies of the Globe. The formation of internal waves requires seasonal stratification of the water bodies and generation by (primarily) wind forces. Because they propagate in basins of variable depth, a generated wave field often experiences transformation from large basin-wide scales to smaller scales. As long as this fission is hydrodynamically stable, nothing dramatic will happen. However, if vertical density gradients and shearing of the horizontal currents in the metalimnion combine to a Richardson number sufficiently small (< ΒΌ), the light epilimnion water mixes with the water of the hypolimnion, giving rise to vertical diffusion of substances into lower depths. This meromixis is chiefly responsible for the ventilation of the deeper waters and the homogenization of the water through the lake depth. These processes are mainly formed as a result of the physical conditions, but they play biologically an important role in the trophicational state of the lake.