The Bujumbura meteorological station lies at the northern end of the lake (3.32° S, 29.32° E), while the Mbala station is situated 40 km from the southern end (8.85° S, 31.33° E). Both stations are part of the World Meteorological Organisation network. The lake temperature was measured with a CTD12+ instrument (accuracy ±0.01 °C) and an automatic ANDERAA thermistor string installed in the south...

GREG CRONIN*, JAMES H. MCCUTCHAN JR , JOHN PITLICK ‡ AND WILLIAM M. LEWIS JR † *Department of Biology, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO, U.S.A. Center for Limnology/Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, U.S.A. Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.

1 Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 2 Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, 3 Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Århus, Denmark, 4 Geological Survey of Finland, Kuopio, Finland, 5 Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 6 Department of Marine Geology and Glaciology, ...