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Wisconsin Lake Modeling Aggregation
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2015-07-23 It just gets weirder #73

Open lawinslow opened 9 years ago

lawinslow commented 9 years ago

Sparkling. Increasing SW offset by 0.5 Watt/year

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Trout lake. image

Color scales are slightly different WTF.

jordansread commented 9 years ago

This is a complete head-scratcher. For TR, my first take would be that the greater SW causes sharper strat and partitions more heat in the surface, where it is lost faster. Don't know if the blue is a rise in thermocline depth??

for SP, I guess the governing of heat loss really kicks in earlier that I would have imagined. I will stop trying to guess what these things look like - it really makes me look like an idiot :)

lawinslow commented 9 years ago

I know. Egg on my face for my "theories". Blue is a rise in thermo depth. If you put more rad energy in it wins in the battle with the wind for sharper stratification? I'm going to shelve this for now.