Water temperature, ice cover, and lake stratification are important physical properties of lakes and reservoirs that control mixing as well as bio-geo-chemical processes and thus influence the water quality. We used an ensemble of vertical onedimensional hydrodynamic lake models driven with regional climate projections to calculate water temperature, stratification, and ice cover under the A1B emission scenario for the German drinking water reservoir Lichtenberg. We used an analysis of variance method to estimate the contributions of the considered sources of uncertainty on the ensemble output. For all simulated variables, epistemic uncertainty, which is related to the model structure, is the dominant source throughout the simulation period. Nonetheless, the calculated trends are coherent among the five models and in line with historical observations. The ensemble predicts an increase in surface water temperature of 0.34 K per decade, a lengthening of the summer stratification of 3.2 days per decade, as well as decreased probabilities of the occurrence of ice cover and winter inverse stratification by 2100. These expected changes are likely to influence the water quality of the reservoir. Similar trends are to be expected in other reservoirs and lakes in comparable regions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:90146 |
| Date | 22 March 2024 |
| Creators | Feldbauer, Johannes, Ladwig, Robert, Mesman, Jorrit P., Moore, Tadhg N., Zündorf, Hilke, Berendonk, Thomas U., Petzoldt, Thomas |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 1420-9055, 50, 10.1007/s00027-022-00883-2, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/National Science Foundation/Directorate for Biological Sciences | Division of Biological Infrastructure/DBI 1759865//ABI Development: Building advanced numerical simulation technology for the lake ecology community/, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/European Commission/H2020 | MSCA-ITN-EJD/722518//Management of Climatic Extreme Events in Lakes Reservoirs for the Protection of Ecosystem Services/MANTEL, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/European Commission/H2020 | ERA-NET-Cofund/690462//European Research Area for Climate Services/ERA4CS, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/National Science Foundation/Directorate for Biological Sciences | Division of Environmental Biology/1926050//MSA: Macrosystems EDDIE: An undergraduate training program in macrosystems science and ecological forecasting/, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/National Science Foundation/Directorate for Biological Sciences | Division of Biological Infrastructure/1933016//Collaborative Research: CIBR: Cyberinfrastructure Enabling End-to-End Workflows for Aquatic Ecosystem Forecasting/ |
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