The response of lake levels and areas to climatic change

Mason, Ian; Guzkowska, M. A. J.; Rapley, CG; Street-Perrott, F. Alayne

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“…A lake acts as an integrator of climate change (Adrian et al 2009;Schindler 2009), from seasonal to inter-annual and secular scales, with different response times depending on its morphology (Mason et al 1994). The water stored in lakes responds (directly and indirectly) to any changes in precipitation and air temperature (Robertson and Ragotzkie 1990;De Wit and Stankiewicz 2006).…”

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Lake Volume Monitoring from Space

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Lakes are integrators of environmental change occurring at both the regional and global scale. They present a wide range of behavior on a variety of timescales (cyclic and secular) depending on their morphology and climate conditions. Lakes play a crucial role in retaining and stocking water, and because of the significant global environmental changes occurring at several anthropocentric levels, the necessity to monitor all morphodynamic characteristics [e.g., water level, surface (water contour) and volume] has increased substantially. Satellite altimetry and imagery are now widely used together to calculate lake and reservoir water storage changes worldwide. However, strategies and algorithms to calculate these characteristics are not straightforward, and specific approaches need to be developed. We present a review of some of these methodologies by using lakes over the Tibetan Plateau to illustrate some critical aspects and issues (technical and scientific) linked to the observation of climate change impact on surface waters from remote sensing data. Many authors have measured water variation using the limited remote sensing measurements available over short time periods, even though the time series are probably too short to directly link these results with climate change. Indeed, there are many processes and factors, like the influence of lake morphology, that are beyond observation and are still uncertain. The time response for lakes to reach a new state of equilibrium is a key aspect that is often neglected in current literature. Observations over a long period of time, including maintaining a constellation of comprehensive and complementary satellite missions with service continuity over decades, are therefore necessary especially when the ground gauge network is too limited. In addition, the design of future satellite missions with new instrumental concepts (e.g., SAR, SARin, Ka band altimetry, Ka interferometry) will also be suitable for complete monitoring of continental waters.

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“…Due to the sensitivity of lakes, especially closed systems, to climate change, there has been ongoing research on lakes as sentinels or indicators of climate change [9,[61][62][63][64]. Paleoarchives concealed in lake sediments have been used for decades to assess the state of past climates worldwide [65] and in Eurasia [66][67][68][69].…”

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“…Paleoarchives concealed in lake sediments have been used for decades to assess the state of past climates worldwide [65] and in Eurasia [66][67][68][69]. There have been multiple efforts to create world lakes databases [61,62]. Apart from the monitoring of lake volumes and area changes, [62] other metrics, such as lake summer surface water temperature (July-September in Northern Hemisphere, January-March in Southern) are also used as a climate indicator [70,71].…”

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“…There have been multiple efforts to create world lakes databases [61,62]. Apart from the monitoring of lake volumes and area changes, [62] other metrics, such as lake summer surface water temperature (July-September in Northern Hemisphere, January-March in Southern) are also used as a climate indicator [70,71].…”

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Essentials of Endorheic Basins and Lakes: A Review in the Context of Current and Future Water Resource Management and Mitigation Activities in Central Asia

Yapiyev

Sagin

Inglezakis

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Abstract:Endorheic basins (i.e., land-locked drainage networks) and their lakes can be highly sensitive to variations in climate and adverse anthropogenic activities, such as overexploitation of water resources. In this review paper, we provide a brief overview of one major endorheic basin on each continent, plus a number of endorheic basins in Central Asia (CA), a region where a large proportion of the land area is within this type of basin. We summarize the effects of (changing) climate drivers and land surface-atmosphere feedbacks on the water balance. For the CA region, we also discuss key anthropogenic activities, related water management approaches and their complex relationship with political and policy issues. In CA a substantial increase in irrigated agriculture coupled with negative climate change impacts have disrupted the fragile water balance for many endorheic basins and their lakes. Transboundary integrated land and water management approaches must be developed to facilitate adequate climate change adaptation and possible mitigation of the adverse anthropogenic influence on endorheic basins in CA. Suitable climate adaptation, mitigation and efficient natural resource management technologies and methods are available, and are developing fast. A number of these are discussed in the paper, but these technologies alone are not sufficient to address pressing water resource issues in CA. Food-water-energy nexus analyses demonstrate that transboundary endorheic basin management requires transformational changes with involvement of all key stakeholders. Regional programs, supported by local governments and international donors, which incorporate advanced adaptation technologies, water resource research and management capacity development, are essential for successful climate change adaptation efforts in CA. However, there is a need for an accelerated uptake of such programs, with an emphasis on unification of approaches, as the pressures resulting from climate change and aggravated by human mismanagement of natural water resources leave very little time for hesitation.

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“…Lakes are dynamic systems sensitive to local climatic variables such as precipitation, temperature, solar radiation and wind speed as well as to changes in catchment land use and tectonic activity. Hydrochemically, endoreic basin lakes, well represented in the oriental branch of the East African Rift (Fig.1), react to changes in the ratio between precipitation and evaporation by changes in depth and salinity (StreetPerrott and Harrison, 1985;Mason et al, 1994;Vance and Wolfe, 1996). Some indicators, such as diatoms, ostracodes and stable isotopes record this chemical variation and can be used in sedimentary archives as proxy-data for paleolimnological and paleoclimatological reconstructions via transfer functions (Gasse et al, 1995;Cohen et al, 1997;Verschuren et al, 2000;Barker et al, 2002;Grosjean et al, 2003).…”

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Chloride concentrations in Lake Tanganyika: an indicator of the hydrological budget?

Branchu¹,

Bouchet

2004

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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On a historical time scale, this paper investigates the effect of hydroclimatic variations on the surface water salinity of Lake Tanganyika, the largest African lake and an open freshwater reservoir. Through annual water and chemical budgets, based on original and bibliographic data, a tracer of the water regime is proposed. Chloride, an inert and conservative element, seems to be the best candidate although its contribution to salinity is small; its use as a tracer of the water regime is validated on seasonal and historical time scales. Seasonally, a monthly water and chloride budget, constructed for an average year has been compared with data acquired in 1973. On a historical time scale, bibliographic data of surface chloride concentrations, compiled since 1939 have been compared with the level variation curve. The relation between lake level and surface water chloride concentration is significant on both time scales. Hence, the surface salinity/chlorinity of this freshwater lake is sensitive to hydroclimatic variations even if level variations are very limited in comparison with its great depth. This sensitivity is due mainly to the permanent thermo-haline stratification of the lake.

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The response of lake levels and areas to climatic change

Cited by 184 publications

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Lake Volume Monitoring from Space

Lake Volume Monitoring from Space

Essentials of Endorheic Basins and Lakes: A Review in the Context of Current and Future Water Resource Management and Mitigation Activities in Central Asia

Chloride concentrations in Lake Tanganyika: an indicator of the hydrological budget?

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