Lake Kinneret is Israel's only fresh water lake (unless you count the Dead
Sea). It spans roughly 20km from north to south, and about 12km at its widest east
west extent. It is not quite 50m deep at its deepest point. In late spring, the lake
stratifies significantly and remains stratified throughout the fall. During the time
the lake is stratified, it exhibits low horizontal mode semi-diurnal inertial motions
in response to surface forcing from diurnal winds. This internal motion is known to
be important in the ecological and chemical balances of the lake, and is suspected
to be responsible for episodes in which large numbers of fish are killed.
The physical response of the lake to wind forcing is studied. The lake hydrodynamics
is approximated by a (x,y,t) two and three layer model on the f-plane
(rotating frame) with detailed bathymetry. The numerical method for the integration
of the nonlinear partial differential equation is presented, as well as, the
generation of the elliptic grid used in the spatial discretization of the Kinneret domain.
A suite of numerical simulations are compared to the available data in the
northwestern part of the lake. The nonlinear effects, as well as, the sloping beach
problem are discussed in the appendixes. / Graduation date: 2000
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/33240 |
| Date | 03 April 2000 |
| Creators | Vernieres, Guillaume |
| Contributors | Liburdy, James |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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