Physics of Lakes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-lxvi

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2. Wind-Induced Three-Dimensional Currents: Numerical Models and Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3

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   2. Barotropic Wind-Induced Motions in a Shallow Lake

      • Kolumban Hutter, Yongqi Wang, Irina P. Chubarenko

      Pages 5-34

   3. Response of a Stratified Alpine Lake to External Wind Fields: Numerical Prediction and Comparison with Field Observations

      • Kolumban Hutter, Yongqi Wang, Irina P. Chubarenko

      Pages 35-90

   4. Comparing Numerical Methods for Convectively-Dominated Problems

      • Kolumban Hutter, Yongqi Wang, Irina P. Chubarenko

      Pages 91-127

   5. Comparing Different Numerical Treatments of Advection Terms for Wind-Induced Circulations in Lakes

      • Kolumban Hutter, Yongqi Wang, Irina P. Chubarenko

      Pages 129-172

   6. Subgrid-Scale Parameterization in Numerical Simulations of Lake Circulation

      • Kolumban Hutter, Yongqi Wang, Irina P. Chubarenko

      Pages 173-205

3. Observation, Measurements and Laboratory Experiments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-211

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   2. Instruments and Sensors

      • Kolumban Hutter, Yongqi Wang, Irina P. Chubarenko

      Pages 213-283

   3. Measuring Methods and Techniques

      • Kolumban Hutter, Yongqi Wang, Irina P. Chubarenko

      Pages 285-306

   4. Dimensional Analysis, Similitude and Model Experiments

      • Kolumban Hutter, Yongqi Wang, Irina P. Chubarenko

      Pages 307-396

4. Detritus and Particle Laden Transport in Lakes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 397-399

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   2. Prograding and Retrograding Hypo- and Hyper-Pycnal Deltaic Formations into Quiescent Ambients

      • Kolumban Hutter, Yongqi Wang, Irina P. Chubarenko

      Pages 401-485

   3. Sediment Transport in Alluvial Systems

      • Kolumban Hutter, Yongqi Wang, Irina P. Chubarenko

      Pages 487-579

5. Back Matter

   Pages 581-605

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The ongoing thread in this volume of Physics of Lakes is the presentation of different methods of investigation for processes taking place in real lakes with a view to understanding lakes as components of the geophysical environment. It is divided into three parts. Part I is devoted to numerical modeling techniques and demonstrates that (i) wind-induced currents in depth-integrated models can only adequately predict current fields for extremely shallow lakes, and (ii) that classical multi-layered simulation models can only adequately reproduce current and temperature distributions when the lake is directly subjected to wind, but not the post-wind oscillating response. This makes shock capturing discretization techniques and Mellor-Yamada turbulence closure schemes necessary, as well as extremely high grid resolution to reduce the excessive numerical diffusion. Part II is devoted to the presentation of principles of observation and laboratory experimental procedures. It details the principles of operation for current, temperature, conductivity and other sensors applied in the field. It also discusses the advantages and limitations of common measuring methods like registration from stationary or drifting buoys, sounding and profiling from a boat, etc. Questions of data accuracy, quality, and reliability are also addressed. The use of laboratory experiments on a rotating platform is based on an exposition of dimensional analysis and model theory and illustrated using Lake Constance as an example. Part III gives an account of the dynamics of lake water as a particle-laden fluid, which, coupled with the transport of the bottom sediments, leads to morphodynamic changes of the bathymetry in estuarine and possibly whole lake regions. An elegant spatially one-dimensional theory makes it possible to derive analytic solutions of deltaic formations which are corroborated by laboratory experiments. A full three-dimensional description of the evolution of the alluvial bathymetryunder prescribed tributary sediment input indicates a potential subject for future research.

• Field and Laboratory Measurements
• Geophysical Fluid Mechanics
• Numerical Methods
• Sediment Transport
• Wind-induced Motion

• c/o Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie, HIT F43.2, ETH Hönggerberg, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

  Kolumban Hutter

• P.P. Shirshov Institut of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Science, Kaliningrad, Russia

  Irina P. Chubarenko

• Chair of Fluid Dynamics Department of Mechanical Engineering, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany

  Yongqi Wang

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