%0 Journal Article
%T The Elevation to Area Relationship of Lake Behnke
%A Kaitlin Deutsch
%J Undergraduate Journal of Mathematical Modeling : One + Two
%D 2012
%I University of South Florida
%R 10.5038/2326-3652.4.2.5
%X The objective of this project was to determine the area-to-depth relationship in Lake Behnke, which acts as the principal stormwater drainage basin for the University of South Florida campus in Tampa, Florida. Data previously collected in a stormwater management study by Jeffery Earhart illustrated a linear correlation between the lake's area and depth; however, that study was conducted in 1998, and this present work serves to double check that correlation. We analyzed a bathymetric map of Lake Behnke that displayed several contour lines indicating depth and approximated the area inside each closed curve with a contour integral. The resulting relationship between area and elevation was determined to be more parabolic than linear.
%K Stormwater management
%K Depth
%K Bathymetry
%U http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ujmm/vol4/iss2/5