Impacts of extreme 2013-2014 winter conditions on Lake Michigan's fall heat content, surface temperature, and evaporation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3364-3370

  Gronewold, A D ^a,b   Anderson, E J ^a   Lofgren, B ^a   Blanken, P D ^c   Wang, J ^a   Smith, J ^b   Hunter, T ^a   Lang, G ^a   Stow, C A ^a   Beletsky, D ^b   Bratton, J ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

El Ni o; evaporation; Great Lakes; hydrologic regimes; ice cover; thermal regimes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ENTHALPY; EVAPORATION; OPEN HEARTH FURNACES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER LEVELS;

GREAT LAKES; HYDROLOGIC CONDITIONS; HYDROLOGIC REGIME; HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS; ICE COVER; LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMAL REGIMES;

LAKES;

CLIMATE FORCING; EVAPORATION; HEAT FLUX; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMAL REGIME; WATER LEVEL; WINTER;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE MICHIGAN;

EID: 84930476598     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063799     Document Type: Article

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