Ladoga and Onego — Great European Lakes Observations and Modelling /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rukhovets, Leonid (Editor), Filatov, Nikolai (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Geography.; Earth sciences.; Geographical information systems.; Marine sciences.; Freshwater.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Marine & Freshwater Sciences.; Earth Sciences, general.

This book studies the contemporary problems of the Great European Lakes – Ladoga and Onego - on both a regional and a global scale, placing special emphasis on interactions between the limnological and socio-economic environments. Field observations and numerical modeling are used to investigate the...

Table of Contents:

• The Great European Lakes: state of the art
• Hydrothermodynamics of large stratified lakes
• Climatic circulation and the thermal regime of the lakes
• Estimation of the lakes’ thermohydrodynamic changes under the impact of regional climate change
• Three-dimensional ecosystem model of a large stratified lake
• Ecosystem models of Lakes Ladoga and Onego
• Estimating potential changes in Lakes Ladoga and Onego under human and climatic impact
• Lake Ladoga and Lake Onego models of fish communities
• Natural resources of Lakes Ladoga and Onego and sustainable development of the region.