The role of lake size and local phenomena for monitoring ground-fast lake ice

This paper reviews the current state of knowledge pertaining to the interactions of lake ice and climate. Lake ice has been shown to be sensitive to climate variability through observations and modelling, and both long-term and short-term trends have been identified from ice records. Ice phenology trends have typically been associated with variations in air temperatures while ice thickness trends tend to be associated more to changes in snow cover. The role of ice cover in the regional climate is less documented and with longer ice-free seasons possible as a result of changing climate conditions, especially at higher latitudes, the effects of lakes on their surrounding climate (such as increased evaporation, lake-effect snow and thermal moderation of surrounding areas, for example) can be expected to become more prominent. The inclusion of lakes and lake ice in climate modelling is an area of increased attention in recent studies. An important step in improving predictions of ice conditions in models is the assimilation of remote sensing data in areas where in-situ data is lacking, or non-representative of the lake conditions. The ability to accurately represent ice cover on lakes will be an important step in the improvement of global circulation models, regional climate models and numerical weather forecasting.

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Fish community size structure of small lakes: the role of lake size, biodiversity and disturbance

Journal of Freshwater Ecology ◽

10.1080/02705060.2015.1030787 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

pp. 557-568 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Thomas A. Clement ◽

Brent A. Murry ◽

Donald G. Uzarski

Keyword(s):

Fish Community ◽

Size Structure ◽

Small Lakes ◽

Community Size ◽

Lake Size

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Blowin’ in the wind: reciprocal airborne carbon fluxes between lakes and land This paper is based on the J.C. Stevenson Memorial Lecture presented at the Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research (CCFFR) in Ottawa, Ontario, 9–11 January 2009.

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences ◽

10.1139/f10-157 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 68 (1) ◽

pp. 170-182 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

M. Jake Vander Zanden ◽

Claudio Gratton

Keyword(s):

Carbon Flux ◽

Open Water ◽

Memorial Lecture ◽

Published Data ◽

Insect Emergence ◽

Large Lakes ◽

Lake Ecosystems ◽

Ecosystem Size ◽

Lake Size

Ecologists are increasingly interested in how disjunct habitats are connected through the cross-habitat movement of matter, prey, nutrients, and detritus and the implications for recipient systems. The study of lake ecosystems has been dominated by the study of pelagic (open-water) production and processes, though there is growing awareness of the role of terrestrial inputs and benthic trophic pathways. Here, we review the phenomena of airborne fluxes to and from lakes. We assemble published data on terrestrial particulate organic carbon (TPOC) deposition to lakes, insect production, and insect emergence and use these data to simulate how airborne lake-to-land and land-to-lake carbon flux is expected to scale with ecosystem size, while taking into account among-lake variability in emergence and TPOC deposition. Emergent insect flux to land increases as a function of lake size, while TPOC deposition to lakes decreases as a function of lake size. TPOC deposition exceeds insect emergence in small lakes, while in large lakes, insect emergence exceeds TPOC deposition. We present a general framework for considering directional fluxes across habitat boundaries. Furthermore, our results highlight the overarching role of ecosystem geometry in determining insect emergence, airborne carbon deposition, and net carbon flux between adjacent ecosystems.

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The Role of Northern Lakes in a Regional Energy Balance

Journal of Hydrometeorology ◽

10.1175/jhm421.1 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 291-305 ◽

Cited By ~ 98

Author(s):

Wayne R. Rouse ◽

Claire J. Oswald ◽

Jacqueline Binyamin ◽

Christopher Spence ◽

William M. Schertzer ◽

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Keyword(s):

Surface Energy ◽

Heat Storage ◽

Regional Climate ◽

Heat Fluxes ◽

Net Radiation ◽

Large Lakes ◽

Regional Energy ◽

Energy Balances ◽

Lake Size

Abstract There are many lakes of widely varying morphometry in northern latitudes. For this study region, in the central Mackenzie River valley of western Canada, lakes make up 37% of the landscape. The nonlake components of the landscape are divided into uplands (55%) and wetlands (8%). With such abundance, lakes are important features that can influence the regional climate. This paper examines the role of lakes in the regional surface energy and water balance and evaluates the links to the frequency–size distribution of lakes. The primary purpose is to examine how the surface energy balance may influence regional climate and weather. Lakes are characterized by both the magnitude and temporal behavior of their surface energy balances during the ice-free period. The impacts of combinations of various-size lakes and land–lake distributions on regional energy balances and evaporation cycles are presented. Net radiation is substantially greater over all water-dominated surfaces compared with uplands. The seasonal heat storage increases with lake size. Medium and large lakes are slow to warm in summer. Their large cumulative heat storage, near summer’s end, fuels large convective heat fluxes in fall and early winter. The evaporation season for upland, wetland, and small, medium, and large lakes lasts for 19, 21, 22, 24, and 30 weeks, respectively. The regional effects of combinations of surface types are derived. The region is initially treated as comprising uplands only. The influences of wetland, small, medium, and large lakes are added sequentially, to build up to the energy budget of the actual landscape. The addition of lakes increases the regional net radiation, the maximum regional subsurface heat storage, and evaporation substantially. Evaporation decreases slightly in the first half of the season but experiences a large enhancement in the second half. The sensible heat flux is reduced substantially in the first half of the season, but changes little in the second half. For energy budget modeling the representation of lake size is important. Net radiation is fairly independent of size. An equal area of medium and large lakes, compared with small lakes, yields substantially larger latent heat fluxes and lesser sensible heat fluxes. Lake size also creates large differences in regional flux magnitudes, especially in the spring and fall periods.

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The role of snow in the thickening processes of lake ice at Lake Abashiri, Hokkaido, Japan

Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography ◽

10.1080/16000870.2017.1391655 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 69 (1) ◽

pp. 1391655 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Yu Ohata ◽

Takenobu Toyota ◽

Alexander D. Fraser

Keyword(s):

Lake Ice

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Fractal-Based Retrieval and Potential Driving Factors of Lake Ice Fractures of Chagan Lake, Northeast China Using Landsat Remote Sensing Images

Remote Sensing ◽

10.3390/rs13214233 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (21) ◽

pp. 4233

Author(s):

Xiaohua Hao ◽

Qian Yang ◽

Xiaoguang Shi ◽

Xuemei Liu ◽

Wenfeng Huang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Cold Season ◽

Remote Sensing Images ◽

Landsat Images ◽

Lake Ice ◽

Thermal Changes ◽

Critical Attention ◽

Chagan Lake ◽

Ice Fracturing

A thorough understanding of the freshwater ice process received considerable critical attention due to increasing winter recreations and ice engineering. The development of the lake ice process of Chagan Lake was monitored using MODIS and Landsat images over eight consecutive snow seasons from October 2013 to April 2021. We derived the lake ice phenology from an eight-day time series of lake water skin temperature (LWST) provided by MODIS, including freeze-up date, break-up date, and ice cover duration. We discovered a large-scale fracture extending from northwest to southeast that repeatedly appeared on Landsat images since 1986. A novel fractal-based auto-extraction is proposed to extract the length and angle of these fractures. We also carried out a field campaign and an ice ridge was found at the southernmost part of what we observed from the images. Moreover, we explained the fracturing development by thermal changes, wind in lake, and underlying flow. Results show that the lake ice fracture is nearly perpendicular to the dominant wind direction in the cold season, which indicates the crucial role of wind on lake ice fracturing.

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