Characterizing partial upwellings and surface circulation at Lake Tahoe, California–Nevada, USA with thermal infrared images

Multi‐scale thermal pattern monitoring of a large lake (Lake Geneva) using a multi‐sensor approach

“…The weak bise episodes of days 1 and 7 induce cold anomalies at the western end of Grand Lac and warm ones, downwind, in the Petit Lac. They can be interpreted, respectively, as upwelling and downwelling, somewhat referable to the 4 July 1989 situation shown by Lemmin and D'Adamo (1996;figure 9), and similar to the partial upwellings reported in Lake Tahoe by Strub and Powell (1987) and Steissberg et al (2005). Another forcing of interest, concerning the central eastern part of Grand Lac, is given by vaudaire episodes, a stormy wind blowing down the Rhô ne valley.…”

Spatial and temporal patterns of nearshore clarity in Lake Tahoe from fine resolution turbidity measurements

“…Although wind typically comes from the southwest along the southern shore of Lake Tahoe, large variations in wind direction and speed were observed across the study area, and not enough data were available to accurately describe the conditions associated with any particular event. Strub et al (1984) and Steissberg et al (2005) discuss patterns of wind forcing and the resulting transport of particles in Lake Tahoe and show that wind may play a role in the observed patterns of turbidity at South Lake Tahoe. A visual comparison of Upper Truckee River inflows and turbidity plumes suggests that stream input also effects turbidity in the nearshore (Fig.…”

Optical remote sensing of lakes: an overview on Lake Maggiore

“…Though the 3.7 µm channel is more sensitive to SST, it is primarily used only for night-time measurements because of relatively strong reflection of solar irradiation in this wavelength region, which contaminates the retrieved radiation. Thermal infrared remote sensing applied to freshwater ecosystems has aimed to map surface temperatures (Oesch et al, 2008;Reinart and Reinhold, 2008;Crosman and Horel, 2009), bulk temperatures (Thiemann and Schiller, 2003), circulation surface (Schladow et al, 2004) and to characterize upwelling events (Steissberg et al, 2005).…”