Freezing of Lakes and the Evolution of their Ice Cover
A large number of boreal lakes are ice-covered in winter. However, research and literature of these lakes concerns by far only the open water season. In particular, no textbook on physics of ice-covered lakes exists, and now it would be a proper time to p
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Freezing of Lakes and the Evolution of their Ice Cover
Cover: Picture Information Lake landscape in the middle Lake Kilpisjärvi, northern Finland, taken from top of neighbouring fell 540 m above the lake surface (Photograph by Matti Leppäranta). Map above Isolines of 180 days and 100 days long ice season and 0 °C January mean temperature (this figure was prepared by graphics assistant Salla Jokela for the book). Image on the right side Surface radiative temperature field of Lake Peipsi, at the border of Estonia and Russia based on MODIS data (prepared by professor John E. Lewis, Ottawa, Canada). Lake on the upper right corner Lake Baikal landscape (Photograph by Dr. Oleg Timoshkin, Irkutsk, Russia). Back Cover Photo Winter limnology course students taking water samples in an ice-covered lake in Lammi, southern Finland. (photograph by Matti Leppäranta).
Matti Leppa¨ranta
Freezing of Lakes and the Evolution of their Ice Cover
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Matti Leppäranta Department of Physics University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland
ISBN 978-3-642-29080-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-29081-7
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