Four decades of full-depth profiles reveal layer-resolved drivers of reservoir thermal regimes and episodic hypolimnetic warming

Mi, Chenxi; Gai, Bo; Kong, Xiangzhen; Jiang, Yuzhe; Chan, Chun Ngai; Rinke, Karsten

doi:10.5194/hess-30-4611-2026

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Four decades of full-depth profiles reveal layer-resolved drivers of reservoir thermal regimes and episodic hypolimnetic warming

Chenxi Mi, Bo Gai, Xiangzhen Kong, Yuzhe Jiang, Chun Ngai Chan, and Karsten Rinke

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