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Morphometry and Average Temperature Affect Lake Stratification Responses to Climate Change: Lake Stratification Responses to Climate

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dc.creator Kraemer, Benjamin M.
dc.creator Anneville, Orlane
dc.creator Chandra, Sudeep
dc.creator Dix, Margaret
dc.creator Kuusisto, Esko
dc.creator Livingstone, David M.
dc.creator Rimmer, Alon
dc.creator Schladow, Geoffrey S.
dc.creator Silow, Eugene
dc.creator Sitoki, Lewis M.
dc.creator Tamatamah, Rashid A.
dc.creator Vadeboncoeur, Yvonne
dc.creator McIntyre, Peter B.
dc.date 2016-07-08T12:34:39Z
dc.date 2016-07-08T12:34:39Z
dc.date 2015-05
dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-27T08:23:37Z
dc.date.available 2018-03-27T08:23:37Z
dc.identifier Kraemer, B.M., Anneville, O., Chandra, S., Dix, M., Kuusisto, E., Livingstone, D.M., Rimmer, A., Schladow, S.G., Silow, E., Sitoki, L.M. and Tamatamah, R., 2015. Morphometry and average temperature affect lake stratification responses to climate change. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(12), pp.4981-4988.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/2962
dc.identifier 10.1002/2015GL064097
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/2962
dc.description Climate change is affecting lake stratification with consequences for water quality and the benefits that lakes provide to society. Here we use long-term temperature data (1970–2010) from 26 lakes around the world to show that climate change has altered lake stratification globally and that the magnitudes of lake stratification changes are primarily controlled by lake morphometry (mean depth, surface area, and volume) and mean lake temperature. Deep lakes and lakes with high average temperatures have experienced the largest changes in lake stratification even though their surface temperatures tend to be warming more slowly. These results confirm that the nonlinear relationship between water density and water temperature and the strong dependence of lake stratification on lake morphometry makes lake temperature trends relatively poor predictors of lake stratification trends.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Wiley
dc.title Morphometry and Average Temperature Affect Lake Stratification Responses to Climate Change: Lake Stratification Responses to Climate
dc.type Journal Article, Peer Reviewed


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