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Deep-water renewal and biological production in Lake Baikal

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The physics of mixing in deep temperate lakes is strongly constrained by the existence of a temperature of maximum density for fresh water; and by the pressure dependence of that temperature. The world's deepest lake is well suited to the study of such deep-water renewal processes, and also to the determination of the rates of renewal using time-dependent chemical tracers. The mean rates of biological recycling of oxygen, carbon and nutrients for the entire lake can then also be determined.

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  1. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093-0220, USA

    R. F. Weiss

  2. Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, British Columbia, V8L 4B2, Canada

    E. C. Carmack Carmack

  3. Institute for Applied Geophysics, 20 B Glebovskaya, Moscow, 107258, USSR

    V. M. Koropalov

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Weiss, R., Carmack Carmack, E. & Koropalov, V. Deep-water renewal and biological production in Lake Baikal. Nature 349, 665–669 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1038/349665a0

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