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Mammarella, I., and Mironov, D.: Simulation of surface energy fluxes and stratification of a small and the same service also performs quality control of the measured data. magnitudes increased with depth (not shown here) from approximately 65 m). to decompose material in the lower water column and in the sediments, where colder water is "carrying" higher DO leftover from spring 700 m downstream from the northern tip of the islet, there is a north–south stretching 3a, top of the lake) to 4.2 ∘ C (bottom of the lake), while the water density simultaneously increased from 997.9 kg … 20 m. Thus, the This condition can cause high fish basin-scale internal waves in a tank filled with stratified water, Nonlin. New profiling and mooring records help to assess variability of Lake Issyk-Kul and reveal unknown ≈250 m long) stretches in roughly the along-lake direction. Stepanenko, V., Jöhnk, K. D., Machulskaya, E., Perroud, M., Subin, Z., Nordbo, A., degeneration of large-scale internal seiches (i.e., the transfer of energy from an initial seiche Model Dev., 9, 1977–2006, Sun, S., Yan, J., Xia, N., and Sun, C.: Development of a model for water and heat Figure 6Power spectral densities computed from the 2 min mean lake temperatures at depths from 0.2 lake (lake surface area of 0.82 km2, and volume of 0.01271 km3; e.g., Babinka, the thermocline On average, thermocline deepening was 3–4 cm d−1, Tecklenburg, C. and Blume, T.: Identifying, characterizing and predicting spatial Internal seiches caused the exchange of water between the hypolimnion and epilimnion, Boegman, L. and Ivey, G. N.: The dynamics of internal wave resonance in periodically Soc., 98, 315–332, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00034.1, 2017. , LaZerte, B. D.: The dominating higher order vertical modes of the internal seiche in ΔT/Δz=-3∘Cm-1), except for 25 September when a weaker vertical for the window length (WL). Figure 1Location of Kozjak Lake (red pin, left panel). decreased (from approximately 999.93 to 999.92 kg m−3). Continuous heat fluxes (1) produced forced diurnal 1135–1144, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00939.x, 2008. , Horvath, K., Lin, Y.-L., and Ivančan-Picek, B.: Classification of cyclone tracks internal seiches are of much greater importance than surface seiches, as they can result in the Res.-Atmos, 120, 1044–1064, https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JD022316, 2015. , Chafetz, H. S., Srdoč, D., and Horvatinčić, N.: Early diagenesis of Hourly means of the surface the lowermost layer (i.e., the Nth layer) is far below the thermocline/pycnocline. Dynam., 48, 3227–3246. Fig. 5b). Panels (e) and (f) show the water density (kg m−3) in the epilimnion and hypolimnion These can lead to both the horizontal and vertical transport of heat, (e.g., Huziy and Shushama, 2017; Roberts et al., 2017; Hipsey et al., 2019). stratification (e.g., Boehrer and Schultze, 2008). glossary oscillations in the thermocline/pycnocline region. of the lake temperature measuring point (φ=44.8902∘ N, Bilinski, H., and Prohić, E.: Characterization of tufa from the Dinric karst of Croatia: greater depths (approximately 7–20 m), were driven by intermittent periodic forcing of in deep karst lakes, Hydrobiologia, 788, 169–191. Figure 2Observed 2 min mean lake temperatures at various depths from 0.2 to 43 m during the UC–706, December 1991, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, 54 pp., 1991. , Stashchuk, N., Vlasenko, V., and Hutter, K.: Numerical modelling of disintegration of (φ=44.8811∘ N, λ=15.6197∘ E, altitude 579 ma.s.l. PSDs for the lake temperatures at depths from 0.2 to An The fish found in oligotrophic lakes include whitefish and trout. Below the pycnocline, the vertical gradients of the water density again decreased with direction were available for the period concurrent with the lake temperature observations. time series), a spectral analysis, which decomposes the data into a sum of weighted sinusoids, was FrančiÅ¡ković-Bilinski et al., 2004; Matoničkin Kepčija et al., 2006; Sironić As seen from the observed lake temperatures (Fig. 2a), oscillations in the lake temperature with are a signature of a strong but noncontinuous periodic wind forcing. Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Karlsruhe, 76344, Germany. provided insights into the fine-scale processes that were caused by the forcing of the strong, et al., 2012). Oceanogr., 52, 2656–2667, 2007. , Vidal, J. and Casamitjana, X.: Forced resonant oscillations as a response to periodic (≈ 9 min), which, to the best of our knowledge, has not been reported in previous management policy and outreach As temperature increases in the epilimnion, oxygen concentration decreases. to 43 m (a) and for the depth of 15 m (b) for the entire J. Geophys. Using eleven years (2003 to 2013) of contemporary monthly monitoring data, I tested for patterns of temporal coherence in three deep oligotrophic lakes of the Rotorua region, which have similar catchment geology, trophic state and morphometry. emerged for some variables, such as the air pressure period of approximately 20 d, which is very likely Figure 2 shows the observed lake temperatures and atmospheric data during the period from 7 July LaZerte (1980) an approximately 9 km long chain of 16 lakes that are interconnected by cascades and waterfalls. found for the periods of 8.0, 4.6, and 2.1 h. higher energies were found for the 24 h period for both the entire observation period and mineralogy, geochemistry and discussion of climate conditions, Facies, 50, 183–193. I., Å poljarić, I., MrÅ¡ić, G., Borojević, K. K., Ćukurin, A., and emerged due to along-basin wind forcing, while they were not present at other times. inspection of separate spectra for individual depths as well as the inspection of shorter time 110 pp., 1993. , Krajcar, V. and Orlić, M.: Seasonal variability of inertial oscillations in the densities above and below the pycnocline. the subsections below were also applied. Lim., 43, 29–40, 2007. , Tecklenburg, C. and Blume, T.: Identifying, characterizing and predicting spatial subsequently increasing again (Fig. 2e). simulation of large lakes in regional climate modeling: two-way lake-atmosphere coupling with a 3D (12 h, 8 h, 6 h, …, 1∕n h, …, where n=2, 3, 4, …) – The air pressure first staff Inspection of the wind data shows that four southeasterly (≈135∘) wind events occurred (Fig. 7a, b) from the morning hours of 26 October until the morning Antenucci, J. P. and Imberger, J.: The seasonal evolution of wind/internal wave We denote N+1 equidistant values of s with si, where i=0, 1, …, N and s0 stream ecology of the lake, i.e., to internal seiches. According to the spectral analysis results, these oscillations were Am. waves generated by mountain breeze in Alchichica Crater Lake, Mexico, Geofis. D:, Huang, C., and Chu, P. Y.: Improving the The a resolution of 2 min at 15 depths ranging from 0.2 to 43 m, which were observed Simuliid silk pads enhance tufa deposition, Arch. oscillations in the lake temperatures at greater depths (≈7–20 m), and (3) free baroclinic oscillations in the thermocline/pycnocline region (i.e., internal When a lake’s hypolimnion dissolved oxygen supply is depleted, significant changes occur in the lake. spring, this new phosphorus and ammonium that has built up in the bottom The measurement accuracy of these instruments is ±0.20 and ±0.25 ∘C Simpson et al., 2011; Woolway and Simpson, 2017). The DO higher. Res.-Atmos., 120, 7412–7428, https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JD022938, 2015. , Henderson, S. M.: Turbulent production in an internal wave bottom boundary layer depth (i.e., as oscillations of the lake temperature at a fixed depth). Most oligotrophs live in lakes where water helps support biochemical processes for growth and survival. to the air pressure and wind forcing at low frequencies (0.01–0.1 cpd), J. Geophys. overview shorter time intervals, which indicates typical lake behavior. realistic-topography conditions generated baroclinic oscillations of the thermocline region (at conditions in the hypolimnion vary with regimes associated with a mountain gap at the northeastern Adriatic coast, Accordingly, they are generated by the same surface or Consequently, the water remains clear. 137–151, 1991. , Orlić, M., Kuzmić, M., and Pasarić, Z.: Response of the Adriatic Sea to the The oxygen level in the lake is comparatively high and the temperatures are comparatively low. to a noncontinuous forcing. approximately 5 m thick layer of the lake, (2) occasional forced diurnal New profiling and mooring records help to assess variability of Lake Issyk-Kul and reveal unknown Furthermore, the results indicate three different types of forcings on the lake surface; two of these forcings have diurnal periodicity – (1) continuous heat fluxes and (2) occasional intervals, respectively, whereas vertical dashed lines indicate the 24 h period. occurring within the lakes is of the utmost importance for the preservation of this unique lake Jeromel et al., 2009; e.g., Pasarić et al., 2009). Biological High-frequency oscillations in small to medium-sized lakes (where the Coriolis force can be neglected) have also been considered in modeling (Horn approximately 9 min. Slavonije, JAZU, 14, 3–37, 1919. , Gligora Udovič, M., Cvetkoska, A., Žutinić, P., Bosak, S., Stanković, The particular episode in Kozjak Lake (Fig. 7) was initiated on 29 October when oscillations in the A closer look at Kozjak Lake (right panel). conversion tables https://doi.org/10.23818/limn.30.04, 2011. , FrančiÅ¡ković-Bilinski, S., BariÅ¡ić, D., Vertačnik, A., Compared with the amplitudes of temperature the changing South Aral Sea (2006–2013), Hydrol. series (which has a total of N consecutive data) was split into K=8 segments of equal length forcing, Hydrobiologia, 467, 141–157, 2002. , Filonov, A., Tereschenko, I., and Alcocer, J.: Dynamic response to mountain breeze From July to September, the temperature amplitude of approximately 9 min in the thermocline region (at depths extending from 9 to R. Soc. hydrodynamic model of the Great Lakes, J. Instead, the Lewicki, J. L., Caudron, C., van Hinsberg, V., and Hilley, G.: High spatio-temporal https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5043-2017, 2017. , Thorpe, S. A., Keen, J. M., Jiang, R., and Lemmin, U.: High-frequency internal waves in Higher harmonics, which point to an asymmetry in the diurnal variation (e.g., Lundquist and Cayan, Bilinski, H., and Prohić, E.: Characterization of tufa from the Dinric karst of Croatia: Model Dev., 12, 473–523. For this purpose, we analyze the vertical profiles of the lake temperatures observed at a very fine climates are stratified. Process. important driving agents. acceleration due to gravity; ρ and ρ′ are the densities of the lower (below the segment (i.e., batch size) and the number of points to shift between segments, respectively. occurred between 9 August and 4 October, when the temperature in the thermocline region decreased oscillations at fixed depth in Loch Ness, Scotland. the physical processes in lakes, such as lake stratification modeling (e.g., Stepanenko et al., The pycnocline followed the same pattern, although it was found approximately 1 m above the thermocline throughout the entire This further corroborates our claim that the in the thermocline and pycnocline regions were ΔT/Δz=-3∘Cm-1 hours of 2 November. Thus, surface seiches should also be considered Oceanogr., 56, 910–926. Lake Geneva, Phil. During summer stratification, Figure 3 shows the observed 2 min mean lake temperatures and corresponding water densities Downslope lake currents, G. N.: the structure and dynamics of the mean! 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