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The heat content of a lake consists of sensible and latent heat. It is convenient to take the reference level as the heat content of liquid water at the temperature of 0 °C
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According to Prandtl’s mixing length hypothesis, turbulent transfer processes are described by a characteristic length-scale over which the turbulent eddies mix fluid properties.
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An adjustment applied to the real air temperature to account for a reduction in air density due to the presence of water vapor, θ v = θ(1 + 0.6078q).
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Write T o = [T a + (T o − T a)]4, use the binomial formula and take the two leading terms.
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High temperature refers here to vicinity of the freezing point of meltwater of the saline ice; in sea ice, with the freezing point of –1.8 °C, high temperatures are above –5 °C.
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Leppäranta, M. (2015). Thermodynamics of Seasonal Lake Ice. In: Freezing of Lakes and the Evolution of their Ice Cover. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29081-7_4
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