Sensitivity of summer Lake Superior thermal structure to meteorological forcing

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1141-1154

  Austin, Jay A ^a   Allen, Joshua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; HEAT FLOW; ICE COVER; LONG-TERM CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; STRATIFICATION; SUMMER; SURFACE WATER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WATER TEMPERATURE; WIND VELOCITY;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE SUPERIOR;

EID: 79956373160     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.3.1141     Document Type: Article

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