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A one-dimensional vertical mixing model modified for application to hypersaline Mono Lake reproduced mixed layer dynamics well but hypolimnetic heating was underestimated. One possible source of increased hypolimnetic heating is vertical mixing caused by bubble plumes of methane rising from the sediments. Estimates of vertical mixing from methane seepage in Mono Lake were made with the inclusion of a bubble plume algorithm. A methane ebullition rate three hundred times greater than the maximum estimate for Mono Lake was required to simulate the observed hypolimnetic heating.
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Romero, J.R., Patterson, J.C. & Melack, J.M. Simulation of the effect of methane bubble plumes on vertical mixing in Mono Lake. Aquatic Science 58, 210–223 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00877509
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