Environmental fluid mechanics: lake and reservoir dynamics
Publications
Pieters, R., G.A. Lawrence, A. Leung, J. Crusius and T. Pedersen. 2024. Effect of a dense inflow on the stratification of a steep-sided lake. Limnology and Oceanography.https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12610
Robb, D., R. Pieters and G.A. Lawrence. 2021. Fate of turbid glacial inflows in a hydroelectric reservoir. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 25pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10652-021-09815-4
Imam, Y., B. Laval, R. Pieters and G.A. Lawrence. 2020. The baroclinic response to wind in a multiarm multibasin reservoir. Limnology and Oceanography, 65(3): 582-600. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11328
Tedford, E., G. Halferdahl, R. Pieters and G.A. Lawrence. 2019. Temporal variations in turbidity in an oil sands pit lake. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 19: 457–473. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10652-018-9632-6
Bluteau, C.E., R. Pieters and G.A. Lawrence. 2017. The effects of salt exclusion during ice formation on circulation in lakes. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 17(3): 579-590. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10652-016-9508-6
Lawrence, G.A., E.W. Tedford and R. Pieters. 2016. Suspended solids in an end pit lake: potential mixing mechanisms. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 43: 211-217. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjce-2015-0381
Pieters, R., W. Coady, K.I. Ashley and G.A. Lawrence. 2015. Artificial circulation of a mine pit lake. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 42(1): 33-43. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjce-2014-0222
Pieters, R. and G.A. Lawrence. 2014. Physical processes and meromixis in pit-lakes. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 41(6): 569-578. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjce-2012-0132
Imam, Y, B. Laval, R. Pieters, and G.A. Lawrence. 2013. Strongly damped baroclinic response to wind in multi-basin reservoirs. Limnology and Oceanography, 58(4), 1243-1258. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2013.58.4.1243
Pieters, R. and G. A. Lawrence. 2012. Plunging inflows and the summer photic zone in reservoirs. Water Quality Research Journal of Canada, 47(3-4), 268-275. https://doi.org/10.2166/wqrjc.2012.143
Pieters, R. and G.A. Lawrence. 2009. Effect of salt exclusion from lake ice on seasonal circulation. Limnology and Oceanography, 54(2): 401-412. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2009.54.2.0401
Tedford, E.W., R. Pieters and G.A. Lawrence. 2009. Symmetric Holmboe instabilities in a laboratory exchange flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 636: 137-153. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112009007733
Tedford, E.W., J.R. Carpenter, R. Pawlowicz, R. Pieters and G.A. Lawrence. 2009. Observation and analysis of shear instability in the Fraser River estuary. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 114(C11006), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JC005313
Forrest A.L., B.E. Laval, R. Pieters and D.S.S. Lim. 2008. Convectively driven transport in temperate lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, 53(5, part 2), 2321-2332. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2008.53.5_part_2.2321
Matzinger, A., R. Pieters, K.I. Ashley, G.A. Lawrence and A. Wuest. 2007. Effects of impoundment on nutrient pathways and lake productivity. Limnology and Oceanography, 52(6): 2629-2640. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2007.52.6.2629
G.A. Lawrence, R. Pieters, L. Zaremba, T. Tedford, L. Gu, S. Greco and P. Hamblin, 2004. Summer exchange between Hamilton Harbour and Lake Ontario. Deep Sea Research II, 51(4-5), 475-487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2003.09.002
Crusius, J., R. Pieters, A. Leung, P. Whittle, T. Pedersen, G. Lawrence and J.J. McNee, 2003. Tale of two pit lakes: Initial results of a three-year study of the Main Zone and Waterline pit lakes near Houston, British Columbia, Canada. Mining Engineering, 55, 43-48.
Pieters, R., S. Harris, L.C. Thompson, L. Vidmanic, M. Roushorne, G. Lawrence, J.G. Stockner, H. Andrusak, K.I. Ashley, B. Lindsay, K. Hall and D. Lombard. 2003. Restoration of kokanee salmon in the Arrow Lakes reservoir, British Columbia: preliminary results of a fertilization experiment. Pages 177-196. In: J.G. Stockner, editor. Nutrients in salmonid ecosystems: sustaining production and biodiversity. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 34, Bethesda, Maryland.
Zaremba, L.J., G.A. Lawrence and R. Pieters, 2003. Frictional two-layer exchange flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 474, 339-354. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112002002720
