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Salinity, water temperature and meteorlogical measurements were made over a 5 month period (June-Oct.) at Mahoney Lake, British Columbia to study autumnal mixing. The measurements were made during a time when the lake had been well stratified by a much larger than average runoff the previous spring. The potential energy of stratification decreased from 50 to 24 MJ, in the top 8 m of the water column, from mid August to mid October. Analysis of the energy available from wind shear on the water surface and from penetrative convection during the autumn cooling period was made. Winds were found to be weak (av. 2.17 m s-1) at Mahoney Lake, and their average contribution to mixing energy during the study period was less than 30%. Penetrative convection from thermals descending from the cool surface contributed an average of 2.21 J m-2 d-1 to mixing which represented 72% of the energy available. An efficiency factor of 0.20 for the penetrative convection energy, larger than values previously reported in the literature, was found to fit the measured loss of potential energy of stratification during the period.
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Ward, P.R.B., Hall, K.J., Northcote, T.G., Cheung, W., Murphy, T. (1990). Autumnal mixing in Mahoney Lake, British Columbia. In: Comín, F.A., Northcote, T.G. (eds) Saline Lakes. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0603-7_12
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