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UCR ENSC 140 MT1
UCR ENSC 140 LIMNOLOGY MT!
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Biology
Undergraduate 4
04/18/2010

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Term
Water Cover on Earth
Definition

71% of Earth Surface at an average 3800m deeps

 

Term
% of water distribution
Definition

97.61% Ocean

2.08% Polar Ice and Glaciers

0.295% Ground Water

0.009% Fresh Water Lakes

0.008% Saline Lakes

0.0000009% Rivers

0.0009% atm

Term
Hydrologic Cycle
Definition
Evaporation, Precipiation, Runoff
Term
9 types of lakes
Definition
Tetonic, Volcanic, Glaciation, Landslide, Solution, River Deposits, Wind Formed, Shoreline activity, Organic Activity
Term
Tetonic Lakes
Definition

Lake formed on down-faulted fault line

 

Grabin - formed between 2 mountains

 

Lake Bakai - 20% of worlds fresh water

Term
Volcanic Basins
Definition

Lake in old volcano

 

-no watershed so no nutirents so no life

 

-Lake Caldera

Term
Glaciation Lakes
Definition

most lakes in Northern hemisphere

 

cirque lakes - formed in mountainus areas by melting glaciers

 

kettle lakes - formed by glacial till

Term
Landslide Lakes
Definition
Landslide damning a river
Term
Solution Lakes
Definition

weathering of easily dissolved minerals in groundwater forming caves that expand until reaching surface

 

Karst Lakes

Term
River Activity Lakes
Definition

deltaic lake -Particulate deposits at mouth of river due to decreased velocity, damning itself

 

Oxbow Lake - river skips over a previous bend forming a lake at the bend

 

 

Term
Wind formed lakes
Definition
Playa Lakes - wind erosion results in a very shallow pit in which water gathers. typically in desert
Term
Shorline Activity Lakes
Definition
A section of lakes the gets blocked off desposition forimng a seperate lake.
Term
Organic Activity
Definition
beaver dams
Term
Shoreline Development Number
Definition
L/2√(πSA)
Term
Fetch
Definition
Distance wind blows uniterupted by land
Term
bathymetric map
Definition
gives depth and xy coordinates
Term
Photic Zone
Definition
region light penetrates
Term
Aphotic Zone
Definition
Zone light doesn't penetrate
Term
Profundal Zone
Definition
Zone of decomposition
Term
Light Compensation Level
Definition
Depth at which respiriation=light
Term
Littoral Zone
Definition

Photic zone where rooted plants grow

 

light gets to sediements

Term
Pelalgial zone
Definition

Limnetic Zone - photic zone with no rooted plants

 

distant from shore

Term
River Pools
Definition

Deep, slow moving water

 

silt can settle

 

find burrowing and swimming organisms

Term
River Riffles
Definition

Rapids, shallow waters, bottom free of debris and silt

 

organsims adopted to fast water

Term
Structure of H2O
Definition

18g/mol

 

104.5 degrees

 

H2O can hydrogen bond to 4 others. 2 O's and 1 per H

Term
Specific heat of water
Definition
4186 J/g/C
Term
Surface Tension of Water
Definition
72.8mJ/m^2
Term
Latent heat of vaporization of water
Definition
2.26Kj/g
Term
Latent Heat of fusion
Definition
334 J/g
Term
Lstent Heat of melting of water
Definition
334 J/G
Term
3 fates of light in Water
Definition
Reflection, adsorption by dissolved substances. scattering by particles
Term
Intensity of Light
Definition

Iz = Io e^-Ez

 

E = 1.7/Secchi Depth

Term
Density of water
Definition

0 to 3.98 <1

3.98 = 1

3.98 up < 1

Term
Energy From Light
Definition

E=HV

V= C/λ

 

8.2J/cm^2 per minute from sun

Term
Wavelengths from sun
Definition

O3 abosrbes lower wavelengths in atm only >290nm gets through

 

Eye sees 400 to 800

Term
Clouds effect of angle of light
Definition
Clouds cause angled light to head straight down
Term
Effect of Ice on Lake
Definition
Ice causes temperature inversion. Cold water on top of warm water.
Term
California annual precipitation
Definition

22.9 inchs over 193.9 million acre-feet

 

5-120 in but cities get 10-15

Term
California Runnoff
Definition

30.8 maf or 37% of precipitiaton

 

29% used by farmers

23% wild rivers

7% cities

5% delta flow

36% outflow

Term
Federally funded Ca projects
Definition

>35 built by USACE and USBR

 

largest is Central Valley Project by USBR delievering 7 maf or 10% runoff

-90% used for agriculture

Term
State Water Projects
Definition

29 Dams and resivoirs

 

2.5 maf annually to farmers in sanjaquin valley

 

Term
Local CA water projects
Definition

-owens valley aquaduct and Los angeles aquaduct

 

Term
Colorado River
Definition

4.4 maf to CA

 

3.75maf goes to crops in palo verde

Term
Groundwater suppleis to CA
Definition

30% or 15maf of CA water comes from ground water


we use ~1maf more a year than gets recharged

Term
Heat Budget for Lakes
Definition

Hsw + HLw - (Hb+Hl+Hs)

 

Hsw = input via short wavelength

Hlw = input from long wavlength

Hb = loss from back radiation

HL = evaporation

Hs Sensible/Convective transfer

Term
Temperature equation
Definition

T = Heat/(Density*4.168J*V)

 

Determines structure and rxn rates

 

rise by 10C = 2x rxn rates

20C = 2x10

30 = 4x10

Term
4 important Lake Temp
Definition

Seasonal & Diurnal variations in heat flux

-Denisty of H2O is dpeendant upon temp

-Work is required to mix fluid of different densities

-work of mixing is from wind

 

temp curve opposite of density curve

Term
3 layers of a lake
Definition

Epilimnion - mixed layer

Metalimnion - transition zone betwen mixed and non mixed

hypolimnion - cold and more dense non mixed water

Term
Types of mixing in lakes
Definition

Amnimictic - do not mix, shallow

Monomictic - mix once

warm = >4

Cold = <4

Dimictic - mix twice summer and spring. inverses in winter

Polymicitc - frequently mixed

Meromictic - incomplete mixing

holomictic - entire column is mixed

 

Term
Water Movement
Definition

Gravitional Potential = density*gravity*height

 

spontaneous is (-)

Term
Darcy's Law
Definition
Velocity = -K * H/L
Term
Manning Equation
Definition

Mean Velocity = 1/n * R^2/3 * S^1/2

 

n= roughness coefficient

R= hydrolic radius area/stream bead aka perimeter

S=slope

Term
Laminar Flow
Definition

smooth even flow in layers

 

no slip conditions - water against friction surfaces at zero velocity

 

velocity of water increases exponentially from stream bed

occurs in groundwater flow only

Term
Turbulent Flow
Definition

not orderly, no unidirectional,

 

still no slip conditions

Term
Flow equation
Definition

Re=uz/V

 

u=velocity

z=depth

V=viscosity=1*10^-6

 

Re = laminar<500<turbulent

Term
Pressure at Elevation Equation
Definition

P=Po * (-mgh/RT)

 

m=mass of air 0.0288 Kg/mol

 

R = gas contant 8.314 J/(k*mol)

Term
Hydrostatic Pressure
Definition
P=pgz
Term
Buoyant Force
Definition
F=Density*gV
Term
Advective Force
Definition

perpindicular to surface, dur to river inputs

 

Td=V/Q

 

Td = small, advective flow is most mixing

Td = Large, wind is dominate force

Term
Wind Force
Definition

Parallel to surface causing currents

Shear Force  - 1~2% of wind

 

U = ((density air/H2O)*drag*velocity of water^2)/gz

 

 

Term
wave height
Definition
.105√Fetch
Term
Wind and Stratification
Definition
Wind can make thermal stratification to angles so E/M/H are exposed to the surface. = bad small
Term
Richardson Number
Definition

Ri = G(dens/Z)/(Dens(U/Z)^2)

 

High stratification >0.25

Low Stratification <0.25

 

u=velocity

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