Recent Trends In Laurentian Great Lakes Ice Cover
dc.contributor.author | Assel, Raymond | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Cronk, Kevin | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Norton, David | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-08T20:29:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-08T20:29:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003-03 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Assel, Raymond; Cronk, Kevin; Norton, David; (2003). "Recent Trends In Laurentian Great Lakes Ice Cover." Climatic Change 57 (1-2): 185-204. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/42580> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0165-0009 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-1480 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/42580 | |
dc.description.abstract | A 39-winter (1963–2001) record of annual maximum ice concentration (AMIC), the maximum fraction of lake surface area covered by ice each year, is analyzed for each Great Lake. Lake Erie has the largest median AMIC (94%) followed by Lakes Superior (80%), Huron(63%), Michigan (33%), and Ontario (21%). The frequency distributionof AMICs is negatively skewed for Lakes Superior and Erie and positively skewed for Lakes Michigan and Ontario. Temporal and spatial patterns of typical and extreme AMICs is presented within the context of long-term average air temperatures and lake bathymetry. The variation of spatially averaged ice concentration with discrete depth ranges are discussed for each lake for the upper and lower end of the typical range of AMIC values. In general, ice concentration decreases with increasing depth ranges for a given winter. A decrease in the gradient of ice concentration with depths was also observed with an increase in the AMIC from winter 1983 to winter 1984. A temporal trend in the AMICs supports the hypothesis of three ice cover regimes over the past 39 winters. Approximately 44% of the highest quartile (10 highest) AMICs for the Great Lakes occurred during the 6-winter period:1977–1982 providing evidence of a higher ice cover regime during thisperiod relative to the 14 winters before them (1963–1976) and the 19 winters after them (1983–2001). Winter 1998 established new low AMIC extremes,and the AMIC averaged over the 1998–2001 winters is the lowest for theperiod of record on four of the five Great Lakes. These recent trends taken together are noteworthy as they may be harbingers of a period of even lower AMICs in the 21st Century. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Geosciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Meteorology/Climatology | en_US |
dc.title | Recent Trends In Laurentian Great Lakes Ice Cover | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research, The University of Michigan, 2200 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109-2099, U.S.A | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, 2205 Commonwealth Blvd, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48105-2945, U.S.A | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, 2205 Commonwealth Blvd, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48105-2945, U.S.A | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/42580/1/10584_2004_Article_5095423.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1022140604052 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Climatic Change | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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