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A numerical study of the response of Lake Kinneret to wind forcing Public Deposited

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  • Lake Kinneret is Israel's only fresh water lake (unless you count the Dead Sea). It spans roughly 20km from north to south, and about 12km at its widest east west extent. It is not quite 50m deep at its deepest point. In late spring, the lake stratifies significantly and remains stratified throughout the fall. During the time the lake is stratified, it exhibits low horizontal mode semi-diurnal inertial motions in response to surface forcing from diurnal winds. This internal motion is known to be important in the ecological and chemical balances of the lake, and is suspected to be responsible for episodes in which large numbers of fish are killed. The physical response of the lake to wind forcing is studied. The lake hydrodynamics is approximated by a (x,y,t) two and three layer model on the f-plane (rotating frame) with detailed bathymetry. The numerical method for the integration of the nonlinear partial differential equation is presented, as well as, the generation of the elliptic grid used in the spatial discretization of the Kinneret domain. A suite of numerical simulations are compared to the available data in the northwestern part of the lake. The nonlinear effects, as well as, the sloping beach problem are discussed in the appendixes.
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