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Rhythmic episodes of heating and cooling control thermal stratification of two tropical high mountain lakes
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2020
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Source: Aquatic Sciences, 82(3)
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Journal Title:Aquatic Sciences
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Description:Continuous temperature monitoring for two adjacent tropical crater lakes in Mexico at 4200 m amsl shows that the lakes have rhythmic episodes of heating and cooling with a duration of ~ 30 days during the warmest months. The episodes were caused by rise and decline of solar irradiance reaching the lake surface. One lake, El Sol, showed over each heating and cooling episode a stable mixed layer (~ 20 days) and a deeper layer with a weak thermal gradient. Temperatures below the mixed layer warmed progressively by eddy diffusion after the mixed layer formed. Stratification was followed by full mixing of the water column. Within the same crater, an adjacent second lake, La Luna, showed the same cycles of heating and cooling; it stratified daily but not over multiple days. The difference between the lakes (discontinuous polymictic, continuous polymictic) is explained by the lower transparency of El Sol, which led to greater heat uptake near the surface than the more transparent La Luna. Lower transparency of El Sol was caused by modest anthropogenic effects on total suspended solids and nutrient loading, i.e., small deviations from the natural condition of El Sol caused it to differ qualitatively from La Luna. Events observed in these lakes would not have been evident from weekly temperature records.
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Source:Aquatic Sciences, 82(3)
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ISSN:1015-1621;1420-9055;
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