Ladoga and Onego - Great European Lakes

This book studies the contemporary problems of the Great European Lakes Ladoga and Onego - on both a regional and a global scale, placing special emphasis on interactions between the limnological and socio-economic environments. Field observations and numerical modeling are used to investigate the responsiveness of both environments to respective impacts, as well as to regional and global climate change. The authors, experts in a wide spectrum of natural and human sciences, use a quantitative approach to assess current and future changes to the interactions between the socio-economic dynamics and limnology of the largest European Lakes compared with the great North American Lakes.Table of contentsPREFACEINTRODUCTIONChapter 1. GREAT EUROPEAN LAKES: STATE-OF-THE-ARTChapter 2. HYDROTHERMODYNAMICS OF LARGE STRATIFIED LAKESChapter 3. CLIMATIC CIRCULATION AND THERMAL REGIME OF THE LAKESChapter 4. ESTIMATING CHANGES IN THERMOHYDRODYNAMICS OF THE LAKES UNDER THE IMPACT OF REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGESChapter 5. TRANSPORT OF POLLUTANTS IN A LAKEChapter 6. THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF THE ECOSYSTEM OF A LARGE STRATIFIED LAKEChapter 7. ECOSYSTEM MODELS OF LAKES LADOGA AND ONEGOChapter 8. ESTIMATING POTENTIAL CHANGES IN LAKE LADOGA AND ONEGO ECOSYSTEMS UNDER THE IMPACT OF ANTHROPOGENIC AND CLIMATIC FACTORSChapter 9. MODELS OF LAKE LADOGA AND ONEGO FISH COMMUNITIESChapter 10. NATURAL RESOURCES OF LAKES LADOGA AND ONEGO AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGION