Danau Tahoe: Perbedaan antara revisi

Danau Tahoe adalah salah satu danau terdalam (501 m), terluas (497  km²)¹, dan tertinggi (1898 m) di Amerika Serikat. Hanya [[Danau Crater]] di Oregon yang lebih dalam (588 m).

Meskipun pada sebagian besar lingkaran Danau Tahoe jalan raya melintas dalam jarak cukup dekat sehingga tepi danau dapat terlihat, beberapa bagian penting dari garis pantai California kini berada dalam lingkungan taman negara bagian atau dilindungi oleh Dinas Kehutanan Amerika Serikat. Panjang Danau Tahoe sekitar 35  km dan lebarnya 19  km. Panjang garis pantainya 116  km dan luas permukaannya 495  km².

Rata-rata presipitasi berkisar antara lebih dari 140 &nbsp;cm/tahun di daerah perbatasan di sisi barat basin hingga sekitar 67 &nbsp;cm/tahun di dekat danau di sebelah timur basin. Presipitasi kebanyakan jatuh dalam bentuk salju antara November dan April, meskipun hujan badai ditambah dengan cairan salju yang cepat terjadi menyebabkan banjir yang terbesar.<!--There is a pronounced annual runoff of snowmelt in late spring and early summer, the timing of which varies from year to year. In some years, summertime monsoonal storms from the Great Basin bring intense rainfall, especially to high elevations on the east side of the basin. As the climate in the northern Sierra warms, hydrologists anticipate that an increasing fraction of the precipitation in basin will fall as rain rather than snow.

Until the early 1980s, nutrient limitation studies showed that primary productivity in the lake was nitrogen-limited. Now, after a half-century of accelerated nitrogen input (much of it from direct atmospheric deposition), the lake is phosphorus-limited. Because the volume of the lake is so large (156&nbsp;km³) and its hydraulic residence time so long (about 650 years), its eutrophication may be essentially irreversible.

Much of the area surrounding Lake Tahoe is devoted to the tourism industry and there are many restaurants, ski slopes and [[casino]]s catering to visitors.