Distributions of water temperature and DO profiles were investigated in Andong
Reservoir from 1992 to 2004. Thermal stratification began to form from May of every
year.Increasing water temperature of epilimnion, temperature difference between
epilimnion and hypolimnion increased until August. Lower oxygen layer was formed at
metalimnion from June or July of every year and there were 2 layers depending on each
year. The two lower oxygen layers were affected by rainfall and inflow between July and
September when thermal stratification was formed. The metalimnetic oxygen minima
strongly formed at 2 layers, upper and lower part, when the average rainfall and inflow
were 〉= 170mm, 〉= 50㎥ sec-¹, respectively. It formed weakly when they were 〉400mm
and 〉200 ㎥ sec-¹for one month. The upper part of low oxygen layers formed on the
interface of epilimnion and metalimnion showed larger decreasing rate of DO than
temperature and it disappeared around November.The lower part of those formed on
interface of metalimnion and hypolimnion existed until December and disappeared in
January, this layer showed larger decreasing rate of temperature than DO. DO increased
between the upper and lower part of the low oxygen layers. DO on hypolimnion increased
under metalimnion and dramatically decreased near the bottom of the reservoir.
Temperature of the inflow during rainy season was similar to that of the reservoir's
metalimnion, DO was similar or higher and BOD,COD and SS increased. Density layer
caused by turbidity was formed in metalimnion, and turbidity increased under the upper
part (oxygen increasing layer) of metalimnetic DO minima layers reaching the maximum at
the direct upper part of the lower DO minima layer. The upper part of DO minima layers
formed on the interface of epilimnion and metalimnion is related to organic activity on
the surface, and the lower part of those was considered to be the result of turbid
water inflow to metalimnion during rainy season.