Three dimensional modeling of the effects of changes in meteorological forcing on the thermal structure of Lake Erie

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 827-840

  Liu, Wentao ^a   Bocaniov, Serghei A ^a,b,c   Lamb, Kevin G ^a   Smith, Ralph E H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; ELCOM; Hydrodynamic modeling; Lake Erie; Lake thermal structure

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDRODYNAMICS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; STREAM FLOW; WIND;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; ELCOM; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; LAKE ERIE; METEOROLOGICAL FORCING; THERMAL STRUCTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL HYDRODYNAMIC MODELING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

LAKES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CLIMATE FORCING; EPILIMNION; OXYGEN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; THERMOCLINE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER DEPTH; WATER QUALITY; WIND FIELD;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE;

EID: 84908546693     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2014.08.002     Document Type: Article

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