Sed2K: Modeling Lake Sediment Diagenesis in a Management Context
Publication: Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 141, Issue 3
Abstract
The development of a vertically-segmented, mechanistic mass balance model (Sed2K) for particulate organic matter (POM) diagenesis in lake sediments is described. The model is parsimonious in its requirements for input data and versatile in its accommodation of kinetic formulations. An application is provided for hypereutrophic Lake Alice, Minnesota, which includes a well-constrained calibration to downcore POM constituents (carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) and their efflux at the sediment-water interface. The application then considers the system response to a reduction in POM deposition to the sediments (i.e., addressing the critical “when and to what extent” question fundamental to lake restoration programs).
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Acknowledgments
The authors wish to gratefully acknowledge the contribution of Susan M. Larson in performing sediment phosphorus analyses. We also wish to thank Mr. Pat Reisnour and the staff of Interstate Engineering, Fergus Falls, MN, for support of their support of the Lake Alice sampling program. This is Contribution No. 294 of the Upstate Freshwater Institute.
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Received: Jan 20, 2012
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Published online: Sep 25, 2014
Discussion open until: Feb 25, 2015
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