Freezing of Lakes and the Evolution of their Ice Cover

• Main Author: Leppäranta, Matti (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geophysics.; Physical geography.; Ecosystems.; Aquatic ecology.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Earth Sciences.; Earth System Sciences.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.

A large number of boreal lakes are ice-covered in winter. However, research and literature of these lakes concerns by far only the open water season. In particular, no textbook on physics of ice-covered lakes exists, and now it would be a proper time to prepare such. Winter limnology has become an i...