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VERTICAL ENTRAINMENT INTO THE EPILIMNIA OF STRATIFIED LAKES
Author(s) -
Blanton Jackson O.
Publication year - 1973
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.1973.18.5.0697
Subject(s) - epilimnion , entrainment (biomusicology) , stratification (seeds) , environmental science , temperate climate , hypolimnion , thermal stratification , geology , hydrology (agriculture) , ecology , oceanography , biology , thermocline , eutrophication , nutrient , geotechnical engineering , seed dormancy , botany , germination , dormancy , rhythm , philosophy , aesthetics
Results of testing a one‐dimensional model of entrainment into stratified fluids on several morphologically different lakes in the temperate zone suggest that the growth of volume of the epilimnion of a stratified lake is correlated with mean stability over the period of growth. Mean depth seems the most important morphometrical parameter governing the magnitude of entrainment: the greater the mean depth, the greater the entrainment. The upper and lower limits of entrainment for any given lake may be important considerations in interpreting budget studies of heat and chemicals in the epilimnion. Entrainment may regulate primary production in some stratified lakes.