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Articles | Volume 22, issue 12
Articles | Volume 22, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-6357-2018
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 12
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10 Dec 2018
Research article |  | 10 Dec 2018

Estimating the effect of rainfall on the surface temperature of a tropical lake

Gabriel Gerard Rooney, Nicole van Lipzig, and Wim Thiery

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This paper uses a unique observational dataset of a tropical African lake (L. Kivu) to assess the effect of rain on lake surface temperature. Data from 4 years were categorised by daily rain amount and total net radiation to show that heavy rain may reduce the end-of-day lake temperature by about 0.3 K. This is important since lake surface temperature may influence local weather on short timescales, but the effect of rain on lake temperature has been little studied or parametrised previously.
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