Dynamical downscaling-based projections of great lakes water levels

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 9721-9745

  Notaro, Michael ^a   Bennington, Val ^a   Lofgren, Brent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Climate change; Climate variability; Freshwater; Geographic location entity; Hydrology; Inland seas lakes; Models and modeling; Physical meteorology and climatology; Regional models; Variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPORATION; HYDROLOGY; LAKES; WATER LEVELS;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; FRESHWATER; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; INLAND SEAS; REGIONAL MODEL; VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HYDROLOGY; INLAND SEA;

GREAT LAKES BASIN;

EID: 84957708561     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00847.1     Document Type: Article

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