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Parameterization of Water Transparency in Natural Water Bodies

  • STUDIES OF THE PROCESSES OF INTERACTION BETWEEN LAND AND THE ATMOSPHERE AND THE HYDROLOGICAL EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
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A new parameterization is presented to describe the space and time variations of Secchi depth depending on the integral phytoplankton biomass and surface water temperature. The parameterization was verified against field data in lakes with different types of physiographic and chemical–biological characteristics—from deep oligotrophic northern regions of Lake Ladoga to shallow hypereutrophic Pskovskoe Lake. The results of verification show that the new parameterization can be used for solving a wide range of either hydrothermodynamic or hydrobiological problems. In particular, in the simulation of the thermal regime of water bodies, the proposed parameterization can be used to evaluate the coefficient of extinction of solar radiation. In the development of models to describe aquatic ecosystem functioning, the new parameterization can be used to evaluate the thickness of the trophogenic layer and phytoplankton primary production.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to M.M. Mel’nik (St. Petersburg Branch, VNIRO (L.S. Berg GosNIORKH)), E.V. Protopopova and S.G. Karetnikov (INOZ RAN SPb FITs RAN), as well as to G.B. Kirillin and K. Engel’gardt (IGB, Berlin, Germany) for field data presented for the study.

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The study was carried out under Governmental Orders to the Institute of Limnology, SPb FRC, Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Water Problems of the North, Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences. The study used field observation data obtained during the implementation of the governmental orders to the Institute of Limnology RAS–SPb FRC RAS (Lake Ladoga) with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 12-05-00702-а (lakes Chudskoe and Pskovskoe), under AQUASHIFT Programme (Federal Republic of Germany), project KI 853/3, Lake Müggelsee.

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  1. Institute of Limnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, a Structural Department of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 196105, St. Petersburg, Russia

    S. D. Golosov & I. S. Zverev

  2. Institute of Water Problems of the North, Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 185910, Petrozavodsk, Russia

    A. Yu. Terzhevik

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Golosov, S.D., Zverev, I.S. & Terzhevik, A.Y. Parameterization of Water Transparency in Natural Water Bodies. Water Resour 50, 759–767 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S009780782370001X

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