Conditions of spatiotemporal variability of the thickness of the ice cover on lakes in the Tatra Mountains
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Conditions of spatiotemporal variability of the thickness of the ice cover on lakes in the Tatra Mountains Maksymilian SOLARSKI* Mirosław SZUMNY
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1939-6992;
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4914-9899; e-mail: [email protected]
*Corresponding author Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia, 41-200 Sosnowiec, ul. Będzińska 60, Poland Citation: Solarski M, Szumny M (2020) Conditions of spatiotemporal variability of the thickness of the ice cover on lakes in the Tatra Mountains. Journal of Mountain Science 17(10). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-019-5907-8 © The Author(s) 2020.
Abstract: This research aimed to identify the impact of local climatic and topographic conditions on the formation and development of the ice cover in highmountain lakes and the representativeness assessment of periodic point measurements of the ice cover thickness by taking into consideration the role of the avalanches on the icing of the lakes. Field works included measurement of the ice and snow cover thickness of seven lakes situated in the Tatra Mountains (UNESCO biosphere reserve) at the beginning and the end of the 2017/2018 winter season. In addition, morphometric, topographic and daily meteorological data of lakes from local IMGW (Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management) stations and satellite images were used. The obtained results enabled us to quantify the impact of the winter eolian snow accumulation on the variation in ice thickness. This variation was ranging from several centimetres up to about 2 meters and had a tendency to increase during the winter season. The thickest ice covers occurred in the most shaded places in the direct vicinity of rock walls. The obtained results confirm a dominating role of the snow cover in the variation of the ice thickness within individual lakes. Keywords: Mountain lakes; Ice cover; Mountains; Climate change; Ice phenology
Received: 12-Dec-2019 Revised: 26-May-2020 Accepted: 16-Jul-2020
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Introduction In recent years, there has been a steady increase in research on the ice phenology of lakes and reservoirs in the temperate climatic zone (Magnuson et al. 2000; Solarski et al. 2011; Choiński et al. 2015a; Ariano and Brown 2019; Lopez et al. 2019; Sharma et al. 2019). The studies mainly focused on linking ice regimen patterns with contemporary climate change (Magnuson et al. 2000; Duguay et al. 2003; Marszelewski and Skowron 2006; Salonen et al. 2009; Brown and Duguay 2010; Karetnikov and Naumenko 2011; Pociask-Karteczka and Choiński 2012; Choiński et al. 2015a; Leppäranta 2015; Wrzesiński et al. 2016; Hewitt et al. 2018; Likens 2019; Lopez et al. 2019). The occurrence of ice, and especially of ice cover, has been demonstrated to have a number of impacts on limnic processes, such as: the dynamics of the water mass and its thermal and oxygen conditions (Gao and Stefan 1999; Leppäranta et al. 2003; Šporka et al. 2006; Granados et al.
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