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Cold Water and High Ice Cover on Great Lakes in Spring 2014

Year: 2014

Type: article

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.

Source: Eos

DOI: 10.1002/2014eo340001

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

Institutions: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, University of Michigan, Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research

Language: English

Topic: Cryospheric studies and observations

Subfield: Atmospheric Science

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

OpenAlex ID: W2008917656

FWCI: 2.879

Cites: 6

Cited by: 29

Related to: 10