By Matti Leppäranta
A huge variety of boreal lakes are ice-covered in wintry weather. although, study and literature of those lakes matters by means of some distance simply the open water season. specifically, no textbook on physics of ice-covered lakes exists, and now it might be a formal time to organize such.
Winter limnology has turn into an expanding energetic box of analysis lately. a chain of wintry weather limnology symposia used to be all started in 2008 in Finland with approximately a hundred contributors. the second one symposium used to be held in Berlin in 2010 and the 3rd one is coming in 2012 in Norway. wintry weather limnologists desire strongly a textbook on lake ice physics because the ice acts as their boundary condition.
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2 29 Air Pressure The influence of air pressure in lake physics steps in primarily by its influence on the physical properties of air across large altitudinal differences. Also horizontal air pressure variations may induce seiches in ice-covered lakes (Kirillin et al. 2012). 25 mbar. In weather station records, the atmospheric pressure is normally reduced to the sea surface level. By the hydrostatic law (Eq. 5), air pressure decreases with height. Since air is compressible, the pressure–height relation is a little complicated.
Transfer of water to the atmosphere is lowered also because 40 2 Freezing of Lakes sublimation needs more power than evaporation and because the surface temperature becomes closer to the air temperature when ice grows thicker that lowers the turbulent fluxes. 3 m/month for precipitation and evaporation/sublimation, respectively. Evaporation and sublimation are strongly limited by the available heat fluxes. In practice, in cold climate conditions the mass loss per unit area is less than 10 mm liquid water equivalent per day, while the average level is 1 mm/day.
1. The contours 100 and 180 refer to the mean length of the ice season (days) estimated that the seasonal ice in Siberian lakes can grow to approximately 2 m during one winter (Kirillin et al. 2012). As a theoretical upper limit, Kirillin et al. (2012) refer to 270 cm based on the freezing-degree-days in the coldest place in the northern hemisphere (Oymakon, East Siberia). In medium-size lakes (10 km scale), the thickness of ice needs to be more than 10 cm to span a solid, stable ice sheet across the lake.