Lake Level Response to Seasonal Climatic Variability in the Lake Michigan-Huron System from 1920 to 1995

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 488-500

  Argyilan, Erin P ^a   Forman, Steven L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

20th Century climate change; Great lakes; Lake level; Net basin supply; Runoff; Seasonal

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; HYDROLOGY; LAKES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RUNOFF;

LAKE LEVEL;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CLIMATE VARIATION; EVAPORATION; LAKE LEVEL; LIMNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RUNOFF; SEASONAL VARIATION;

GREAT LAKES (LAKE HURON); GREAT LAKES (LAKE MICHIGAN); NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0142072717     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0380-1330(03)70453-5     Document Type: Article

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