Encyclopedia of Lakes and Reservoirs
The world’s growing population faces the challenge of meeting ever-larger demands for fresh water, not only for drinking but also for agriculture, industry and recreation. Already some one billion people are at risk from over-use, water withdrawals and pollution of these water bodies So scientific...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2012, 2012
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2012 |
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Table of Contents:
- Paleolakes
- Paleolimnology
- Peipsi Lake in Estonia/Russia
- Phosphor Exchange Sediment.-Water
- Playa Lake Chains: The Example of the Yenyening Lakesof the Upper Avon River Catchment of Western Australia
- Poopó Lake, Bolivia
- Reservoir and Lake Trap Efficiency
- Reservoir Capacity
- Reservoir Sedimentation
- Reservoir Sedimentation in Australia under Extreme Conditions
- Reservoirs in Great Britain
- Reservoirs, Early British History
- Reservoirs, Multipurpose Use of Small Reservoirs
- Restoration of Urban Lakes in the NE Musi Basin, Hyderabad, India
- Riverine Thermal Bar
- Russian Lakes
- Russian Lakes, Geographical Classification
- Russian Water Reservoirs
- Saki, Lake (Crimea, Ukraine)
- Satellite Data and Lakes
- Sedimentation Processes in Lakes
- Sediments, Flushing from Reservoirs
- Slovenia, Lakes and Reservoirs
- Source of Freshwater
- South America, Holocene Coastal Lagoons
- South America, Lakes Review
- Urban Lakes and Ponds
- Venting Turbidity Currents in Reservoirs
- Victoria Lake
- Volume of Water in Lakes and Reservoirs: Determination
- Võrtsjärv Lake in Estonia
- Water Balance of Lakes
- Water Balance of the Laurentian Great Lakes
- Water Exchange Between Littoral Zone and Open Lake Water
- Water Framework Directive
- Water Quality for Drinking: WHO Guidelines
- Water Quality in Lakes and Reservoirs
- Wetland Areas and Lakes in Bulgaria
- Wetlands
- Wetlands of the Canadian Arctic
- Wetlands: Classification, Distribution, Function
- Wind Waves
- World Lake Database: International Lake Environment Committee Foundation (ILEC)
- World Lake Vision
- Xiaolangdi Reservoir’s Role in Water and Sediment Regulation.
- Stratification and Mixing in Tropical African Lakes
- Stratification in Lakes
- Submerged Vegetation in Shallow Lakes
- Surface Seiches
- Suspended Sediment Concentration in Stratified Lakes estimated by Accoustic Methods
- Sweden’s Great Lakes
- Swedish Glacial Lakes: Estimation of the Number of Lakes of Different Sizes
- Tanganyika Lake, Modeling the Eco.-hydrodynamics
- Tanganyika Lake: Strong in Hydrodynamics, Diverse in Ecology
- Thames Water: Development of London’s Potable Water Supply and the Role of Bankside Storage Reservoirs
- Thermal Bar
- Thermal Regime of Lakes
- Thermobaric Stratification of Very Deep Lakes
- Three Gorges Project on the Yangtze River in China
- Titicaca Lake
- Transboundary Waters: Rivers, Lakes, and Groundwaters
- Trophic Lake Classification
- Tsunami Effect on a Coastal Lake in India
- Turbidity Currents in Reservoirs
- Udaipur, Lakes
- United Kingdom, Largest Lakes
- United States: Principal Freshwater Lakes
- Finnish Lakes, Trends and Regional Differences of Phytoplankton
- Floodplain Wetlands: Focusing on India
- Forth and Clyde and Union Ship Canals, UK
- Geneva Lake
- Gippsland Lakes
- Glacier Jökulhlaup
- Great Lake Processes: Thermal Structure, Circulation and Turbulent Diffusion Processes
- Great Lakes, North America.-Great Salt Lake
- Hazards
- Health Aspects of Lakes and Reservoirs
- Hydrodynamics and Circulation of Fjords
- Hydrodynamics of Very Shallow Lakes
- Hydrological Sizing of Water Supply Reservoirs
- Hydropower
- Ice Covered Lakes
- Ice Formation on Lakes and Ice Growth
- Icelandic Lakes, Physical Characteristics
- Indian Lakes
- Initial Mixing of Pollutants
- Internal Seiches
- Japanese Lakes
- Katse Dam: Lesotha Highlands Water Project
- Kingairloch Hydroelectric Scheme
- Kis.-Balaton and its Effect on Lake Balaton Water Quality
- Ladoga Lake and Onego Lake (Lakes Ladozhskoye and Onezhskoye)
- Lake Ice
- Lake Monster
- Lake Outbursts
- Chilika Lake
- Chinese Lakes
- Circulation Processes in Lakes
- Classification of Lakes from Hydrological Function
- Classification of Lakes from Origin Processes
- Climate Change Effects on Lakes
- Climate Change: Factors Causing Variation or Change in the Climate
- Coastal Lagoons
- Cyanobacteria (Blue.-Green Algae)
- Dam Failures: Impact on Reservoir Safety Legislation in Great Britain
- Dams and Reservoirs in Macedonia
- Dams and Reservoirs, Role
- Dams, Classification
- Dams, Flood Protection, and Risk
- Dead Sea
- Deltaic Swamps
- Dew Ponds.-Dissolved Oxygen in Ice.-Covered Lakes
- Double.-Diffusive Convection in Lakes
- Droughts and Water Management in England and Wales: With Particular Reference to Reservoirs and Lakes
- Ecological Threat to Lakes and Reservoirs
- English Lakes
- Estuarine Hydrology
- Europe, Lakes Review
- Eutrophication in Fresh Waters: An International Review
- Everglades, Florida, USA
- Fens, England
- Finnish Lakes
- Acidification in Lakes
- Africa, Lakes Review
- Age Determination of Lake Deposits
- Alpin Lakes
- Alternative Stable States in Shallow Lakes
- Amazon Lakes
- Antarctic Lakes
- Antarctic Subglacial Lake Ellsworth
- Antarctic Subglacial Lake Vostok
- Antarctic Subglacial Lakes
- Aquatic Plants
- Arab Region, Lakes and Reservoirs
- Aral Sea
- Arch Dams, Development from Cut.-Stone Arches to Modern Design
- Arctic Lakes
- Artificial Wetlands
- Asia, Lakes Review
- Australia, Climate and Lakes
- Australia, Coastal Paleolakes of “Swanland”
- Baikal, Lake
- Balaton Lake in Hungary
- Baltic Sea Basin, History Since the Latest Deglaciation
- Basin.-Scale Internal Waves
- Bathymetrical Survey of the Scottish Freshwater Lochs, 1897–1909
- Beaver Dams and Ponds
- Bengal Basin, Sediment Sink
- Brownification of Lakes
- Carbon Cycle in Lakes
- Caribbean.-Central America, Lakes Review
- Carinthia Lakes and Reservoirs in Austria
- Caspian Sea
- Chad Lake
- Lake Restoration
- Lake Sediments
- Lake Shore Nomenclature
- Lake Surveying
- Lakes as Archives of Earth History.-Lakes on Earth, different types
- Large Dams and Environment
- Large Dams, Statistics and Critical Review
- Laurentian Great Lakes, Interaction of Coastal and Offshore Waters
- Light and Primary Production in Lakes
- Limnological Studies in Lake Erken Sweden
- Loch Katrine
- Lough
- Lough Neagh
- Macedonian Lakes
- Maracaibo Lake
- Marib Dam and Irrigation Project
- Mass Curve and Reservoir Design
- Memphremagog, Lake
- Meromictic Lakes
- Microorganisms in Lakes and Reservoirs
- Mixing in Lakes
- Myponga Reservoir, South Australia: The Influence of Nutrients, Phytoplankton, Pathogens, and Organic Carbon on Water Quality
- Nahuel Huapí, Lake
- Nasser Lake
- Nile Basin, Lakes
- North Delta Lakes, Egypt
- Nutrient Balance, Light, and Primary Production
- Okeechobee, Lake, Florida, USA
- Origin of Lakes and Their Physical Characteristics