Forecasting impacts of climate change on Great Lakes surface water temperatures

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 454-463

  Trumpickas, Justin ^a,b   Shuter, Brian J ^a,b   Minns, Charles K ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c GREAT LAKES LABORATORY FOR FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Great Lakes; Surface water temperatures

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; COOLING RATES; ECOSYSTEM PROCESS; EMPIRICAL MODEL; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GREAT LAKES; INSHORE WATERS; OFFSHORE WATER; ONTARIO; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SPECIFIC SITES; SURFACE WATER TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WATER TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE INFLUENCE; WATER TEMPERATURES; WHOLE-LAKE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COOLING; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LEAKAGE (FLUID); REMOTE SENSING;

LAKES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HINDCASTING; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PLATEAU; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE WATER; WATER TEMPERATURE;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 69249205336     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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