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WIND‐DRIVEN CIRCULATION IN UNSTRATIFIED LAKES
Author(s) -
Bye John A. T.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1965.10.3.0451
Subject(s) - circulation (fluid dynamics) , wind stress , geology , current (fluid) , flow (mathematics) , environmental science , meteorology , atmospheric sciences , climatology , oceanography , mechanics , physics
Observations of the wind‐driven circulation in the vertical plane of unstratified lakes, including some new results indicating a logarithmic current profile near the lake surface, are presented. A theoretical velocity profile that is in fair agreement with a stress‐driven laboratory flow, and that may approximate to the steady circulation in the central section of lakes of nearly uniform depth, is also developed. From this profile, an estimate is made of the effect on the wind setup of a gently sloping lake bottom.