Fig 1.
Map of Lake Victoria, its major rivers and bathymetry.
Table 1.
Basic model configuration.
Fig 2.
Evolution of different model forcing variables: cloud cover, net longwave radiation, surface air pressure, surface air relative humidity, rainfall, surface air temperature, wind speed and direction at selected locations in Lake Victoria from the year 2000–2014.
Fig 3.
Modeled and observed surface and bottom temperature trends at selected sites in Lake Victoria.
Table 2.
Temperature (°C) variations at selected sites in Lake Victoria.
Fig 4.
Observed and modeled vertical temperature profiles in Lake Victoria during the months of February and August 2008.
Fig 5.
Modeled 20 day averaged near surface (5 m) temperature (shaded) and currents (vectors) in Lake Victoria in different seasons of 2008.
Fig 6.
Modeled 20 day averaged temperature (shaded) and currents (vectors) at 35 m in Lake Victoria in different seasons of 2008.
Fig 7.
Modeled 20 day averaged wind curl (vectors) in Lake Victoria in different seasons of 2008.
Fig 8.
Modeled 20 day verically averaged currents (vectors) in Lake Victoria in different seasons of 2008.
Fig 9.
Modeled 20 day currents velocities from the year 2000–2014 at selected sites in Lake Victoria.
Fig 10.
The modeled daily averaged water temperature (shaded, in °C) and vertical velocity (contour, in cm/day and positive upward) in Lake Victoria in stratified (upper row) and isothermal (lower row) conditions in 2008.
The west—east section (left) is along 1.0°S while the south—north section (right) is along 33.2°E.