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- Ice-covered lakes are facing pervasive changes in their ice-cover periods. Global observations reveal the decline in annual ice-on duration while forecasts of numerical models preclude massive changes of these systems in the next decades as a result of global warming. Understanding the links between the under-ice physics and biogeochemical processes is critical for anticipating the evolution and fate of ice-covered lakes and their ecosystems.
The goal of this interdisciplinary research study is to:
– characterise radiatively-driven convection and mixing in ice-covered waters
– test high-resolution vertical in-situ observations and new autonomous under water vehicles
– determine the horizontal structure of convective cells
– investigate the effect of convective mixing on phytoplankton
– investigate the accumulation and release of greenhouse gases
– develop mechanical energy and heat balances of under-ice waters
– investigate the role lateral flows in the thermal evolution of ice-covered waters
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- Ulloa, H. N., Winters, K. B., Wüest, A., & Bouffard, D. (2019), Differential heating drives downslope flows that accelerate mixed‐layer warming in ice‐covered waters. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 13872– 13882. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085258
Bouffard, D. G. Zdorovennova, S. Bogdanov, T. Efremova, S. Lavanchy, N. Palshin, A. Terzhevik, L. Råman Vinnå, S. Volkov, A. Wüest, R. Zdorovennov, H. N. Ulloa. Under-ice convection dynamics in a boreal lake. Inland Waters 9(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/20442041.2018.1533356
Winters, K.B., H.N. Ulloa, A. Wüest, and D. Bouffard (2019). Energetics of radiatively-heated ice-covered lakes. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084182.
Ulloa, H.N., A. Wüest, and D. Bouffard (2018). Mechanical energy budget and mixing efficiency for a radiatively heated ice-covered waterbody. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 852: R1. doi:10.1017/jfm.2018.587.
Bouffard, D. and A. Wüest (2019). Convection in lakes. Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 51: 189 – 215. Doi: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-010518-040506.
Bouffard D., R.E. Zdorovennov, G.E. Zdorovennova, N. Pasche, A. Wüest and A.Y. Terzhevik (2016). Ice-covered Lake Onega: effects of radiation on convection and internal waves. EUROPEAN LARGE LAKES IV, Hydrobiologia 780: 21–36, doi: 10.1007/s10750-016-2915-3.
Natacha Pasche, Hilmar Hofmann, Damien Bouffard, Carsten J. Schubert, Petr A. Lozovik & Sebastian Sobek (2019): Implications of river intrusion and convective mixing on the spatial and temporal variability of under-ice CO2 , Inland Waters 9(2). DOI: 10.1080/20442041.2019.1568073.
