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71% of Earth Surface at an average 3800m deeps
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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 |
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Evaporation, Precipiation, Runoff |
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Tetonic, Volcanic, Glaciation, Landslide, Solution, River Deposits, Wind Formed, Shoreline activity, Organic Activity |
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Lake formed on down-faulted fault line
Grabin - formed between 2 mountains
Lake Bakai - 20% of worlds fresh water |
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Lake in old volcano
-no watershed so no nutirents so no life
-Lake Caldera |
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most lakes in Northern hemisphere
cirque lakes - formed in mountainus areas by melting glaciers
kettle lakes - formed by glacial till |
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Landslide damning a river |
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weathering of easily dissolved minerals in groundwater forming caves that expand until reaching surface
Karst Lakes |
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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
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Playa Lakes - wind erosion results in a very shallow pit in which water gathers. typically in desert |
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A section of lakes the gets blocked off desposition forimng a seperate lake. |
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Shoreline Development Number |
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Distance wind blows uniterupted by land |
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gives depth and xy coordinates |
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Zone light doesn't penetrate |
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Depth at which respiriation=light |
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Photic zone where rooted plants grow
light gets to sediements |
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Limnetic Zone - photic zone with no rooted plants
distant from shore |
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Deep, slow moving water
silt can settle
find burrowing and swimming organisms |
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Rapids, shallow waters, bottom free of debris and silt
organsims adopted to fast water |
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18g/mol
104.5 degrees
H2O can hydrogen bond to 4 others. 2 O's and 1 per H |
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Latent heat of vaporization of water |
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Lstent Heat of melting of water |
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3 fates of light in Water |
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Reflection, adsorption by dissolved substances. scattering by particles |
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Iz = Io e^-Ez
E = 1.7/Secchi Depth |
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0 to 3.98 <1
3.98 = 1
3.98 up < 1 |
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E=HV
V= C/λ
8.2J/cm^2 per minute from sun |
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O3 abosrbes lower wavelengths in atm only >290nm gets through
Eye sees 400 to 800 |
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Clouds effect of angle of light |
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Clouds cause angled light to head straight down |
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Ice causes temperature inversion. Cold water on top of warm water. |
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California annual precipitation |
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22.9 inchs over 193.9 million acre-feet
5-120 in but cities get 10-15 |
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30.8 maf or 37% of precipitiaton
29% used by farmers
23% wild rivers
7% cities
5% delta flow
36% outflow |
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Federally funded Ca projects |
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>35 built by USACE and USBR
largest is Central Valley Project by USBR delievering 7 maf or 10% runoff
-90% used for agriculture |
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29 Dams and resivoirs
2.5 maf annually to farmers in sanjaquin valley
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-owens valley aquaduct and Los angeles aquaduct
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4.4 maf to CA
3.75maf goes to crops in palo verde |
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Groundwater suppleis to CA |
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30% or 15maf of CA water comes from ground water
we use ~1maf more a year than gets recharged
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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 |
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T = Heat/(Density*4.168J*V)
Determines structure and rxn rates
rise by 10C = 2x rxn rates
20C = 2x10
30 = 4x10 |
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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 |
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Epilimnion - mixed layer
Metalimnion - transition zone betwen mixed and non mixed
hypolimnion - cold and more dense non mixed water |
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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
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Gravitional Potential = density*gravity*height
spontaneous is (-) |
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Mean Velocity = 1/n * R^2/3 * S^1/2
n= roughness coefficient
R= hydrolic radius area/stream bead aka perimeter
S=slope |
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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 |
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not orderly, no unidirectional,
still no slip conditions |
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Re=uz/V
u=velocity
z=depth
V=viscosity=1*10^-6
Re = laminar<500<turbulent |
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Pressure at Elevation Equation |
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P=Po * (-mgh/RT)
m=mass of air 0.0288 Kg/mol
R = gas contant 8.314 J/(k*mol) |
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perpindicular to surface, dur to river inputs
Td=V/Q
Td = small, advective flow is most mixing
Td = Large, wind is dominate force |
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Parallel to surface causing currents
Shear Force - 1~2% of wind
U = ((density air/H2O)*drag*velocity of water^2)/gz
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Wind can make thermal stratification to angles so E/M/H are exposed to the surface. = bad small |
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Ri = G(dens/Z)/(Dens(U/Z)^2)
High stratification >0.25
Low Stratification <0.25
u=velocity |
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