A regime shift in lake superior ice cover, Evaporation, And water temperature following the warm el niño winter of 1997–1998

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1889-1898

  Van Cleave, Katherine ^a   Lenters, John D ^b   Wang, Jia ^c   Verhamme, Edward M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b LimnoTech   (United States)

^c ALTARUM INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 84907320635     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2014.59.6.1889     Document Type: Article

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