Modern Climate Changes and Deep Water Temperature of Lake Baikal

摘要

This paper presents the results on measurements of water temperature in Lake Baikal of 1972-2007. The abnormal warming during this period was accompanied by gradual increase of the upper 300 m layer temperature, but did not affect the water state of the deep zone. Temperature fluctuations in 1972-1992 mainly depended on dynamic influence of atmosphere on the water column causing inter-annual changes in the activity of deep convection.