학술논문

Environmental studies in Lake Baikal: basic facts and perspectives for interdisciplinary research
Document Type
article
Source
EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol 207, p 09001 (2019)
Subject
Physics
QC1-999
Language
English
ISSN
2100-014X
Abstract
Lake Baikal in Siberia is one of the most interesting lakes in the world. It is the world’s largest reservoir of fresh surface water and home to several hundred endemic species. At the same time it harboured the first underwater neutrino telescope NT200, now followed by its successor Baikal-GVD, a cubic-kilometre scale neutrino telescope. Within the Baikal Neutrino project a number of methods and instruments have been designed to study various processes in the Baikal ecosystem. Hundreds of optical, acoustic and other sensors allow for long-term 3D monitoring of water parameters like temperature, inherent optical properties or the intensity of water luminescence, as well as processes like sedimentation or deep water renewal. Here we present selected results of the interdisciplinary environmental studies.