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Giant ice rings in southern Baikal: multi-satellite data help to study ice cover dynamics and eddies under ice
Alexei V. Kouraev
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LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS Toulouse, France
Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
Elena A. Zakharova
EOLA, Toulouse, France
Institute of Water Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Andrey G. Kostianoy
P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
S. Yu. Witte Moscow University, Moscow, Russia
Mikhail N. Shimaraev
Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia
Lev V. Desinov
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
deceased
Evgeny A. Petrov
Baikal Museum of the Irkutsk Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Listvyanka village, Irkutsk region, Russia
Nicholas M. J. Hall
LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS Toulouse, France
Frédérique Rémy
LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS Toulouse, France
Andrey Ya. Suknev
Great Baikal Trail (GBT) Buryatiya, Ulan-Ude, Russia
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Short summary
Giant ice rings are a beautiful and puzzling natural phenomenon. Our data show that ice rings are generated by lens-like warm eddies below the ice. We use multi-satellite data to analyse lake ice cover in the presence of eddies in April 2020 in southern Baikal. Unusual changes in ice colour may be explained by the competing influences of atmosphere above and the warm eddy below the ice. Tracking ice floes also helps to estimate eddy currents and their influence on the upper water layer.
Giant ice rings are a beautiful and puzzling natural phenomenon. Our data show that ice rings...
