Lake Ice phenology of small lakes: Impacts of climate variability in the Great Lakes region

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 76, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 166-185

  Mishra, Vimal ^a,b   Cherkauer, Keith A ^a,b   Bowling, Laura C ^a,b   Huber, Matthew ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate variability; Lake ice; Lakes; VIC model

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BREAK-UP DATE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COLD SEASON; FREEZE-UP; GREAT LAKES; HIGH LATITUDES; ICE BREAK-UP; ICE COVER; INTERDECADAL; LAKE WATER TEMPERATURE; LONG TERM; LONG-TERM TREND; MODEL PERFORMANCE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PHYSICALLY BASED; SEASONAL DYNAMICS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITY MODELS; VIC MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; HEAT STORAGE; LAKES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; STREAM FLOW;

ICE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FREEZING; ICE BREAKUP; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LAKE WATER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 79955031824     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.01.004     Document Type: Article

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