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Browsing Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior by Subject "Morphometric properties of lakes and their influence on temperature and stratification"
Item Influence of lake surface area and depth upon thermal stratification and the depth of the summer thermocline(1989) Gorham, E.; Boyce, F.M.Item Morphometric control of annual heat budgets in temperate lakes(American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, 1964) Gorham, E.Annual heat budgets of 71 lakes in the temperate zone are strongly correlated with mean depth and area. Depth and area influences taken together are responsible for an even higher degree of correlation between heat budgets and lake volumes. For lakes of a given volume, the deeper ones of lesser area appear to take up slightly more heat than the shallower ones of greater area. Dimictic lakes exhibit slightly higher heat budgets than warm monomictic lakes of similar size. Heat uptake appears to rise continuously with increasing lake dimensions, though at a decreasing rate, up to the largest dimensions observed.Item The physical limnology of northern Britain: An epitome of the bathymetrical survey of the Scottish freshwater lochs, 1897-1909(American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, 1958) Gorham, E.Interrelations between drainage area, lake area, length, mean breadth, mean depth, and maximum depth are examined in 262 rock basins and 137 basins lying in or dammed by glacial drift. The effect of lake dimensions upon the time taken for complete water replacement is calculated, and an illustration is given of the influence of lake area and mean depth upon the temperature of surface and bottom waters. No relation is evident between lake dimensions and the organic content (ignition loss) of the profundal muds.