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res:
  bibo_abstract:
  - 'Hutchinson and Löffler''s (1956) classification of lakes based on the seasonal
    thermal mixing regime has become a cornerstone of any analysis of lakes as elements
    of the earth surface. Until now however the lake classification has lacked a physically
    sound quantitative criterion distinguishing between two fundamental lake types:
    thermally stratified during a large portion of the year (mono- and dimictic) and
    predominantly mixed to the bottom (polymictic). Using the mechanistic balance
    between potential and kinetic energy we review the different formulations of the
    Richardson number to derive a generalized scaling for seasonal stratification
    in a closed lake basin. The scaling parameter is the critical mean basin depth,
    Hcrit, that delineates lakes that mix regularly from those that stratify seasonally
    based on lake water transparency, lake length, and an annual mean estimate for
    the Monin-Obukhov length. We validate the scaling on available data of lakes worldwide
    using logistic regression. The scaling criterion consistently described the mixing
    regime significantly better than either the conventional unbounded basin scaling
    or a simple depth threshold. Thus, the generalized scaling is universal for freshwater
    lakes and allows the seasonal mixing regime to be estimated without numerically
    solving the heat transport equations.@eng'
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: G.
      foaf_name: Kirillin, G.
      foaf_surname: Kirillin
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Tom
      foaf_name: Shatwell, Tom
      foaf_surname: Shatwell
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=86424
    orcid: 0000-0002-4520-7916
  bibo_doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.08.008
  bibo_volume: 161
  dct_date: 2016^xs_gYear
  dct_isPartOf:
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/0012-8252
  dct_language: eng
  dct_publisher: Elsevier BV@
  dct_subject:
  - Richardson number
  - Lake classification
  - Seasonal stratification
  - Dimixis
  - Polymixis
  - Water transparency
  - Lake databases
  - Lake modeling
  - Secchi depth
  dct_title: Generalized scaling of seasonal thermal stratification in lakes@
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