Cold water and high ice cover on Great Lakes in Spring 2014

A. H. Clites, J. Wang, K. B. Campbell, A. D. Gronewold, R. A. Assel, X. Bai, G. A. Leshkevich

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Abstract

Very cold temperatures across much of North America caused by the recent anomalous meridional upper air flow - commonly referred to in the public media as a polar vortex (for details, see Blackmon et al. [1977] and National Climatic Data Center, State of the climate: Synoptic discussion for January 2014, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/synoptic/2014/1) - have contributed to extreme hydrologic conditions on the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes are the largest system of lakes and the largest surface of freshwater on Earth - Lake Superior alone is the single largest lake by surface area.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)305-306
Number of pages2
JournalEos
Volume95
Issue number34
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Great Lakes
  • Great Lakes
  • climate change
  • climate change
  • ice cover
  • ice cover
  • surface temperature
  • surface temperature

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