Seasonal Thermal Cycle of Lake Erie

Schertzer, William M.; Saylor, James H.; Boyce, F.M.; Robertson, D.G.; Rosa, F.

doi:10.1016/s0380-1330(87)71667-0

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“…on native benthic invertebrates and on food webs in the Great Lakes (Wormington et al 1995;Dermott et al 1998). Early juvenile mussels (shell length ϳ400-2000 m) were collected from the nearshore shallow water and offshore deep water habitats in Eastern Lake Erie (Schertzer et al 1987) (Fig. 1).…”

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Species and epilimnion/hypolimnion‐related differences in size at larval settlement and metamorphosis in Dreissena (Bivalvia)

Martel

Baldwin

Dermott

et al. 2001

Limnology & Oceanography

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Abstract-Recently settled postlarval quagga mussels (Dreissena bugensis) and zebra mussels (D. polymorpha) were examined using optic microscopy to determine planktonic shell growth and size at settlement and metamorphosis from two habitats in Eastern Lake Erie: nearshore epilimnion and offshore hypolimnion. Postlarvae (shell length ϳ400-2000 m) were collected from various substrates between 1992 and 1995. Planktonic shell growth and size at settlement and metamorphosis were determined by measuring height of the prodissoconch I (PI) and prodissoconch II (PII) on right valves. Mean PI height was 79.07 (SD ϭ 4.64) and 79.62 m (SD ϭ 4.28) for the quagga and zebra mussel, respectively, and did not differ between species or across habitats. There was, however, a distinct between-species difference in size at settlement and metamorphosis (PII size), with larvae of the quagga mussel settling at significantly larger sizes than those of the zebra mussel (nearshore/epilimnion data: quagga PII means, 256-284 m; zebra PII means, 236-249 m). In addition, quagga mussel larvae settled at a greater size in the offshore hypolimnion habitat (PII mean ϭ 313.64 m, SD ϭ 24.69, n ϭ 320) compared to nearshore epilimnion habitat (mean ϭ 261.89 m, SD ϭ 19.41, n ϭ 207). The additional 28% of larval shell (PII) secreted by offshore hypolimnion quagga mussels may be linked to several factors, including a prolonged planktonic period. This study is the first to document the relationship between offshore distance and size at settlement in a bivalve.

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Species and epilimnion/hypolimnion‐related differences in size at larval settlement and metamorphosis in Dreissena (Bivalvia)

Martel

Baldwin

Dermott

et al. 2001

Limnology & Oceanography

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“…2e), the vertical temperature structure and lake heat content (Fig. 2f) (Schertzer et al, 1987). On a lake-wide basis, the latent heat flux is often a dominant component compared to other turbulent exchanges, generally small in the spring but high in the fall the lake heat content is released to the atmosphere.…”

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“…The heat exchange through the water's surface is governed by standard bulk transfer models found in the literature (Schertzer et al, 1987). Energy transfer across the free surface is separated into nonpenetrative components of long-wave radiation, sensible heat transfer, and evaporative heat loss, complemented by penetrative short-wave radiation.…”

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Lake and climate models linkage: a 3-D hydrodynamic contribution

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Abstract. Under a Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS) project, targeted to study the feasibility to link regional climate models with lake models, one of the tasks was to consider such a coupling in large lakes. The objective is to provide detailed information on temperature and circulation distributions of the lake to take into account the spatial variability for temperature and the heat exchange through the water's surface. The major contribution of this work is focused on realistic representation of the heat fluxes and temperature distributions to and from lakes especially during the thermally stratified ice-free periods. This paper presents the detailed 3-D ELCOM model applied in Lake Erie in order to produce, at the surface layer of the lake, the spatial distribution of temperature and heat exchanges that eventually can be coupled with a regional climate model (CRCM). Preliminary results will be presented on how this lake model may improve the regional climate models, which currently do not consider such large lake circulation effects.

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“…5 and 6). The wind-driven water level fluctuations (seiche) and thermal response (Schertzer et al 1987) are much more significant than that of the other four lakes and hence pose a greater challenge in data-model comparison. The seiches cause a sudden opposite water level change at the two ends of the lake, as seen for most storm events in Buffalo (Fig.…”

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