Recent climatic trends in nearshore water temperatures in the St. Lawrence Great Lakes

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 3 I, 1999, Pages 530-540

  Mccormick, Michael J ^a   Fahnenstiel, Gary L ^b  

^a NOAA GREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

GREAT LAKES; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032902604     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.3.0530     Document Type: Article

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