Articles | Volume 30, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-1503-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-1503-2026
Research article
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24 Mar 2026
Research article |  | 24 Mar 2026

Thermobaric circulation induced by cabbeling in a deep freshwater lake: a conceptual 1D model

Joshua Marks, Kazuhisa A. Chikita, and Bertram Boehrer

Data sets

JMarks840/Thermobaric_Circulation Joshua Marks and Bertram Boehrer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18865165

Model code and software

JMarks840/Thermobaric_Circulation Joshua Marks and Bertram Boehrer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18865165

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Short summary
Water quality of lakes depends on deep convection. In many lakes, this is affected by thermobaricity, the temperature dependence of the compressibility of water. We created a numerical approach to demonstrate and emphasize the implementation of this effect in numerical lake models. We conceptually present the purely one dimensional thermobaric deep convection induced by denser water created by vertical cabbeling across the temperature of maximum density at a certain depth in the water column.
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