Title
Physics of lakes [electronic resource]. Volume 3, Methods of understanding lakes as components of the geophysical environment / Kolumban Hutter, Yongqi Wang, Irina P. Chubarenko.
ISBN
9783319004730 electronic book
3319004735 electronic book
9783319004723
Published
Cham : Springer, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-00473-0 doi
Call Number
GB1603.2
Dewey Decimal Classification
551.482
Summary
The ongoing thread in this volume of Physics of Lakes is the presentation of different methods of investigation for processes taking place in real lakes with a view to understanding lakes as components of the geophysical environment. It is divided into three parts. Part I is devoted to numerical modeling techniques and demonstrates that (i) wind-induced currents in depth-integrated models can only adequately predict current fields for extremely shallow lakes, and (ii) that classical multi-layered simulation models can only adequately reproduce current and temperature distributions when the lake is directly subjected to wind, but not the post-wind oscillating response. This makes shock capturing discretization techniques and Mellor-Yamada turbulence closure schemes necessary, as well as extremely high grid resolution to reduce the excessive numerical diffusion. Part II is devoted to the presentation of principles of observation and laboratory experimental procedures. It details the principles of operation for current, temperature, conductivity and other sensors applied in the field. It also discusses the advantages and limitations of common measuring methods like registration from stationary or drifting buoys, sounding and profiling from a boat, etc. Questions of data accuracy, quality, and reliability are also addressed. The use of laboratory experiments on a rotating platform is based on an exposition of dimensional analysis and model theory and illustrated using Lake Constance as an example. Part III gives an account of the dynamics of lake water as a particle-laden fluid, which, coupled with the transport of the bottom sediments, leads to morphodynamic changes of the bathymetry in estuarine and possibly whole lake regions. An elegant spatially one-dimensional theory makes it possible to derive analytic solutions of deltaic formations which are corroborated by laboratory experiments. A full three-dimensional description of the evolution of the alluvial bathymetry under prescribed tributary sediment input indicates a potential subject for future research.
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Series
Advances in geophysical and environmental mechanics and mathematics.
Barotropic Wind-induced Motions in a Shallow Lake
Response of a Stratified Alpine Lake to External Wind Fields Numerical Prediction and Comparison with Field Observations
Comparing Numerical Methods for Convectively-Dominated Problems
Comparing Different Numerical Treatments of Advection Terms for Wind-Induced Circulations in Lakes
Subgrid-Scale Parameterization in Numerical Simulations of Lake Circulation
Instruments and Sensors
Measuring Methods and Techniques
Dimensional Analysis, Similitude and Model Experiments
Prograding and Retrograding Hypo- and Hyperpycnal Deltaic Formations into Quiescent Ambients
Sediment Transport in Alluvial Systems.
