Lecture 3

Focus on the water environment

scale table

Waldo scale
UKL scale

Seasonal stratification

density
nutrient flux and depletion
light

light attenuation with depth

Lake mixing

conveyor belt

Daily

daily thermocline and breakdown
morning lense

light sin curve

time to double scale.xls

Hours to minutes

turbulent mixing
excel simulations -

algae/models/mixing models/lake_mixing
with constant light

algae/waldo/waldo_lagrangian.xls
sin light - multiple runs