On recent trends in atmospheric and limnological variables in Lake Ontario

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 5807-5816

  Huang, Anning ^a,b   Rao, Yerubandi R ^b   Zhang, Weitao ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL MEAN; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; FASTER RATES; LAKE ONTARIO; LIMNOLOGICAL VARIABLES; RECENT TRENDS; SURFACE MIXED LAYERS; SURFACE WATER TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND SPEED; TIME-SCALES; WATER TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

LAKES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; LIMNOLOGY; MIXED LAYER; STRATIFICATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WATER TEMPERATURE; WIND VELOCITY;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ONTARIO;

EID: 84867670595     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00495.1     Document Type: Article

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