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19 Oct 2015
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| 19 Oct 2015
Thermal processes of thermokarst lakes in the continuous permafrost zone of northern Siberia – observations and modeling (Lena River Delta, Siberia)
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A43, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
C. Georgi
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A43, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
G. Kirilin
Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Mueggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin, Germany
S. Muster
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A43, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
K. Abramova
Lena Delta Nature Reserve, Ak. Fedorova 28, 678400 Tiksi, Sakha Republic, Russia
I. Fedorova
Institute of Earth Science, Saint-Petersburg State University, 10th line of Vasiljevsky Island, 33–35, 199178 Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, 38, Beringa Str., St. Petersburg, 199397, Russia
Kazan Federal University, 18, Kremlyovskaya str., Kazan, Russia
A. Chetverova
Institute of Earth Science, Saint-Petersburg State University, 10th line of Vasiljevsky Island, 33–35, 199178 Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, 38, Beringa Str., St. Petersburg, 199397, Russia
M. Grigoriev
Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russia
N. Bornemann
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A43, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
M. Langer
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A43, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE), 38402 St Martin d'Hères, CEDEX, France
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We show that lakes in northern Siberia are very efficient with respect to energy absorption and mixing using measurements as well as numerical modeling. We show that (i) the lakes receive substantial energy for warming from net short-wave radiation; (ii) convective mixing occurs beneath the ice cover, follow beneath the ice cover, following ice break-up, summer, and fall (iii) modeling suggests that the annual mean net heat flux across the bottom sediment boundary is approximately zero.
We show that lakes in northern Siberia are very efficient with respect to energy absorption and...
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