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Snowcovers which form on water bodies form a considerable proportion of the global snowcover. This chapter is a discussion of the chemistry of snowpacks which develop on lakes and their associated freshwater ice forms and processes. The first part treats the evolution of lake snowcover in the context of the growth and decay of the entire lake cover. The second part provides selected examples of hydrologic and biologic roles of lake cover and the third considers the chemistry of ice-related processes and forms, in general terms. In the last part, specific examples of the chemistry of snow and other ice on lakes are developed. These are based on work on Colour Lake, Axel Heiberg Island, NWT (79°N) and Plastic Lake, Southern Ontario (45°N) and on literature dealing with Char Lake, Cornwallis Island, NWT (75°N) and the Saqvaqjuac Lakes, NWT (63°N).
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Adams, W.P., Allan, C. (1987). Aspects of the Chemistry of Ice, Notably Snow, on Lakes. In: Jones, H.G., Orville-Thomas, W.J. (eds) Seasonal Snowcovers: Physics, Chemistry, Hydrology. NATO ASI Series, vol 211. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3947-9_21
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