Small lakes show muted climate change signal in deepwater temperatures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 355-361

  Winslow, Luke A ^a,b   Read, Jordan S ^a   Hansen, Gretchen J A ^c   Hanson, Paul C ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

lakes

Indexed keywords

LAKES; TEMPERATURE;

LAKE DEPTH; LARGE LAKES; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SHALLOW WATERS; TEMPERATURE TRENDS; TURBULENT MIXING; WATER TEMPERATURES; WIND SHELTERING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; LAKE WATER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SHALLOW WATER; TURBULENT MIXING; WATER DEPTH; WATER TEMPERATURE; WIND FIELD;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84923565885     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062325     Document Type: Article

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