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Khar Lake (Mongolian: Хар нуур, ᠬᠠᠷᠠᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ, lit. "black lake"is located in the Khovd aimag (province) in western Mongolia's Great Lakes Depression.
Name
It is also known as Ha-la Hu, Hara Nuur, Har Nuur, Khara Nur, Khar Nuur, and Ozero Kara-Nor[3]
It should be distinguished from the similarly named Khar Lake (Zavkhan), another lake further east in Mongolia.
Description
It is part of a group of lakes that were once part of a larger prehistoric lake that disappeared 5,000 years ago as the region became drier.
Some sources are using different Khar Lake statistics values:[4]
- Water level: 1,134.08 m
- Surface area: 565.2 km²
- Average depth: 4.14 m
- Volume: 2.34 km3.
Water Balance
| Surface input | Surface output | Groundwater inflow- outflow |
Retention time, years | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Precipitation | Inflow | Evaporation | Outflow | ||
| 54.0 | 1,786.9 | 1,117.8 | 1,287.9 | +564.8 | 1.7 |
Khar Lake has a single inflow - Chono Kharaikh Gol river, which creates a river delta.
Khar Lake has a connection to Dörgön Nuur south of it.
References
- ^ includes 74,500 km2 of Khar-Us Nuur lake catchment area
- ^ Russian part of the catchment area belongs to the Khar-Us Nuur lake catchment area.
- ^ Geody. "Ha-la Hu / Hara Nuur / Har Nuur / Khara Nur / Khar Nuur / Ozero Kara-Nor, Mongolia, Earth - Geody". www.geody.com. Retrieved 2017-02-09.
- ^ a b "Surface Water of Mongolia", Gombo Davaa, Dambaravjaa Oyunbaatar, Michiaki Sugita
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