Springer - Ladoga and Onego: Great European Lakes Book

Explore the scientific significance of Europe's largest freshwater bodies with Ladoga and Onego: Great European Lakes: Observations and Modeling. This Springer Praxis book provides a detailed look at Lake Ladoga, which holds a surface area of 17891 km2 and a volume of 902 km3, making it one of the top fifteen freshwater lakes in the world. It is comparable in scale to Lake Ontario. This text also covers Lake Onego, featuring a surface area of 9600 km2 and a volume of 292 km3. Readers will learn about the vast watershed of Lake Ladoga, spanning 258000 km2 across Northwestern European Russia and eastern Finland. The book examines how these lakes, including the connected Lakes Ilmen and Saimaa, serve as vital links in the Caspian-Baltic-White Sea waterway system. Understanding their ecological state is essential for studying the regional water systems and their environmental impact.