Given the importance of lakes on the climate and their socio-economic role, it is important to implement them in climate models to understand their influence on the various cycles such as water, carbon, methane or energy cycle and their interaction with the atmospheric boundary layer. This thesis aims to implement lakes in the ORCHIDEE continental surface model. We have chosen the one-dimensional Flake model which simulates the energy balance of lakes.In a first part of this thesis we have performed a sensitivity analysis of the different parameters of the Flake model. We show that lake surface temperatures and surface heat fluxes are mainly sensitive to depth. However, depending on the chosen depth interval (shallow or very deep), we notic...