Temperature Steps in Lake Kivu: A Bottom Heated Saline Lake
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- 1 March 1976
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of Physical Oceanography
- Vol. 6 (2) , 157-163
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1976)006<0157:tsilka>2.0.co;2
Abstract
Vertical profiles of temperature microstructure in Lake Kivu were obtained with “mini-microstructure recorders” developed by C.S. Cox and William Johnson at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The profiles reveal three depth intervals containing many isothermal layers typically 0.25–2 m thick and of increasing temperature increments 0.01–0.03°C from layer to layer. Approximately 150 such layers appear in a single profile. We assume double-diffusive convection and apply the results of Huppert and of Turner to calculate an upward heat flux of 0.71 to 1.6 W m−2 and a corresponding upward salt flux equal to one-fifth of the average salt output of the lake's only outflow. The chief source of heat and salt is probably geothermal springs in the lake bottom.Keywords
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