Climate change drives coherent trends in physics and oxygen content in North American lakes

Climatic Change

Volumn 124, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 285-299

  Palmer, Michelle E ^a,c   Yan, Norman D ^a,b   Somers, Keith M ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Dorset Environmental Science Centre   (Canada)

^c ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL STORAGE; MIXING; OPEN HEARTH FURNACES; OXYGEN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGAL PRODUCTIONS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; LAKE CHEMISTRY; ONTARIO , CANADA; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; THERMAL REGIMES;

LAKES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; REGIONAL PATTERN; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER COLUMN;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

ALGAE;

EID: 84901192233     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1085-4     Document Type: Article

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