Seiche‐Induced Fish Kills in the Sea of Galilee—A Possible Explanation for Biblical Miracles?

Abstract In Lake Kinneret (the biblical Sea of Galilee), Israel, internal waves of significant amplitude are induced by westerly winds. These waves give rise to upwelling into the surface mixed layer of colder, oxygen‐depleted water from the hypolimnetic and metalimnetic layers. If upwelling occurs...

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Published in:	Water Resources Research
Main Authors:	Yael Amitai, Ehud Strobach, David P. Hamilton, Shmuel Assouline, Ami Nishri, Tamar Zohary
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wiley 2024-10-01
Subjects:	anoxic hypolimnion internal wave Lake Kinneret fish kills mirogrexterraesanctae seiche
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR037894