How dangerous is Africa’s explosive Lake Kivu?

(Nicola JONES, Nature; 23 September 2021)

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-021-02523-5/index.html?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=5c3ff9eef1-briefing-dy-20210923&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-5c3ff9eef1-42022891

Selected Research Articles:

No increasing risk of a limnic eruption at Lake Kivu: Intercomparison study reveals gas concentrations close to steady state (BÄRENBOLD et al., 2020)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237836

3D-modelling of Lake Kivu: Horizontal and vertical flow and temperature structure under spatially variable atmospheric forcing (KRANENBURG et al., 2020)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0380133020301192

Heavy Metal Concentrations in Water Samples from Lake Kivu, Rwanda (NSABIMANA et al., 2020)

https://www.ajol.info/index.php/rjeste/article/view/197549

Additional challenge of Lake Kivu in Central Africa – upward movement of the chemoclines (HIRSLUND, 2012)

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Weak mixing in Lake Kivu: New insights indicate increasing risk of uncontrolled gas eruption (SCHMID et al., 2005)

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2004GC000892