Figure 1(a) describes the surrounding river and the Yodo River Basin, with Lake Biwa as the upper reaches of the main river, covering an area of 8,240 km2. Table 1 shows the flow rate of the main rivers which inflow into Lake Biwa. Figure 1(b) shows the calculation domain with the topography and water depth of Lake Biwa. The horizontal calculated domain is 36 km × 65.5 km with a grid size of 500 m. The vertical domain is 107.5 m, and the vertical grid size is 0.5 m from the surface to the 20 m depth of water and varies from 0.5 to 2.5 m as the water depth increases each 0.1 m in the vertical direction. This is to reproduce the change of water temperature in the surface layer more accurately.
Table 1

Flow rate of main rivers

Name of riverMean annual flow rate (m3 s−1)
① Takatokigawa 6.1 
② Anegawa 22.3 
③ Echigawa 13.0 
④ Hinogawa 14.7 
⑤ Yasugawa 32.4 
⑥ Adogawa 21.2 
Name of riverMean annual flow rate (m3 s−1)
① Takatokigawa 6.1 
② Anegawa 22.3 
③ Echigawa 13.0 
④ Hinogawa 14.7 
⑤ Yasugawa 32.4 
⑥ Adogawa 21.2 
Figure 1

(a) The surrounding river and the Yodo River Basin with Lake Biwa as the upper reaches of the main river and (b) calculation domain with the topography and water depth of Lake Biwa (the red square shows the region to calculate the vorticity). Please refer to the online version of this paper to see this figure in colour: http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2023.075.

Figure 1

(a) The surrounding river and the Yodo River Basin with Lake Biwa as the upper reaches of the main river and (b) calculation domain with the topography and water depth of Lake Biwa (the red square shows the region to calculate the vorticity). Please refer to the online version of this paper to see this figure in colour: http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2023.075.

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