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Main Title Three Case Studies of Lake Temperature and Stratification Response to Warmer Climate.
Author Hondzo, M. ; Stefan, H. G. ;
CORP Author Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Lab.;Environmental Research Lab.-Duluth, MN.
Publisher c1991
Year Published 1991
Report Number TP-316-SER-A; EPA-R-816230; EPA/600/J-91/282;
Stock Number PB92-121391
Additional Subjects Warming ; Climatic changes ; Lakes ; Stratification ; Water pollution ; Greenhouse effect ; Morphometry ; Water temperature ; Diurnal variations ; Weather ; Evaporation ; Reprints ; Global warming
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NTIS  PB92-121391 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
The impact of climatic warming on lakes will most likely have serious implications for water resources and water quality. Rather than using model predictions of greenhouse warming, the paper looks at the changes in heat balance and temperature profiles in a particularly warm year (1988) compared to a more normal one (1971). The comparisons are made for three different morphometrically different lakes located 45 deg N latitude and 93 deg W longitude (north central United States) and for the summer period (April 1 to October 31). Water temperatures are daily values simulated with a model driven by daily weather parameters and verified against several sets of measurements. The results show that in the warmer year epilimnetic water temperatures were higher, evaporative water loss increased, and summer stratification occurred earlier in the season.