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Assessing the influence of lake and watershed attributes on snowmelt bypass at thermokarst lakes
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, N2L3C5, Canada
Brent B. Wolfe
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, N2L3C5, Canada
Philip Marsh
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, N2L3C5, Canada
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Short summary
We estimated how much of the water flowing into lakes during snowmelt replaced the pre-snowmelt lake water. Our data show that, as lake depth increases, the amount of water mixed into lakes decreased, because vertical mixing is reduced as lake depth increases. Our data also show that the water mixing into lakes is not solely snow-sourced but is a mixture of snowmelt and soil water. These results are relevant for lake biogeochemistry given the unique properties of snowmelt runoff.
We estimated how much of the water flowing into lakes during snowmelt replaced the pre-snowmelt...
