The response of Lake Tahoe to climate change

Autor: John Riverson, Robert Coats, S. G. Schladow, Brent Wolfe, Michael D. Dettinger, John E. Reuter, Mariza Costa-Cabral, G. B. Sahoo
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Climatic Change. 116:71-95
ISSN: 1573-1480
0165-0009
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0600-8
Popis: Meteorology is the driving force for lake internal heating, cooling, mixing, and circulation. Thus continued global warming will affect the lake thermal properties, water level, internal nutrient loading, nutrient cycling, food-web characteristics, fish-habitat, aquatic ecosystem, and other important features of lake limnology. Using a 1-D numerical model—the Lake Clarity Model (LCM) —together with the down-scaled climatic data of the two emissions scenarios (B1 and A2) of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) Global Circulation Model, we found that Lake Tahoe will likely cease to mix to the bottom after about 2060 for A2 scenario, with an annual mixing depth of less than 200 m
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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