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Water Circulation and Dispersal Mechanisms

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Water motions in lakes are mostly caused by the wind. Random variability of the wind and the geometrical complexity of natural lake basins combine to produce temporally changing and spatially nonuniform water motions. The human mind cannot fully comprehend the complexity of these motions even in principle, because an infinite number of parameters are necessary for their full description, and simplifying strategies must be adopted. One time-honored approach is some form of averaging, the reduction of complexity to a few statistics. For example, monthly mean current patterns may be studied in a basin, or current records obtained at a single location subjected to spectral analysis. However, some of the details removed by statistical processing can be of interest in their own right, or their effects may be important in some practical problem such as pollution.

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    Abraham Lerman

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Csanady, G.T. (1978). Water Circulation and Dispersal Mechanisms. In: Lerman, A. (eds) Lakes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1152-3_2

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