Thermal modeling of three lakes within the continuous permafrost zone in Alaska using the LAKE 2.0 model

Clark, Jason A.; Jafarov, Elchin E.; Tape, Ken D.; Jones, Benjamin M.; Stepanenko, Victor

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-7421-2022

Articles | Volume 15, issue 19

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-7421-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-7421-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 19

Model evaluation paper

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06 Oct 2022

Model evaluation paper |

| 06 Oct 2022

Thermal modeling of three lakes within the continuous permafrost zone in Alaska using the LAKE 2.0 model

Jason A. Clark, Elchin E. Jafarov, Ken D. Tape, Benjamin M. Jones, and Victor Stepanenko

Data sets

The LAKE model input dataset for three Arctic lakes E. Jafarov, J. Clark, A. Piliouras, K. Tape, B. Jones, and J. Rowland https://doi.org/10.15485/1808368

LAKE 2.0_processing-scripts and data J. A. Clark and E. E. Jafarov https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5593754

LAKE (Version 2.0) Victor Stepanenko https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6353238

Short summary

Lakes in the Arctic are important reservoirs of heat. Under climate warming scenarios, we expect Arctic lakes to warm the surrounding frozen ground. We simulate water temperatures in three Arctic lakes in northern Alaska over several years. Our results show that snow depth and lake ice strongly affect water temperatures during the frozen season and that more heat storage by lakes would enhance thawing of frozen ground.