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Title: Effective Fetch and Relative Exposure Index Maps for the Laurentian Great Lakes Open Access Deposited

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  • Wind exposure is a key physical driver of coastal systems in aquatic environments influencing circulation and wave dynamics. A measure of wind exposure is fetch, the distance over which wind can travel across open water. In large lake systems, such as the Laurentian Great Lakes, estimating fetch has proved to be difficult due to their vast size and complex topobathymetry. Here we describe the development of two spatially discrete indicators of exposure to provide a more accurate indicator of influence of wind exposure in the nearshore of the Laurentian Great Lakes. We summarized wind data from offshore buoys and leveraged existing tools to calculate effective fetch and relative exposure index (effective fetch scaled by mean wind speed) at a 30 m grid cell resolution. We validated these models by comparing our exposure maps to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wave Information Studies models and found general agreement. These exposure maps are available for public download for the years 2004-2014.
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  • lmas@umich.edu
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  • 2004 to 2014
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  • 03/30/2018
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  • doi:10.7302/Z22F7KN3
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Default LSC_c45147_2014_fetchDir_36bins.csv 2018-03-30 509 Bytes Open Access
Default Superior.zip 2018-03-30 2.99 GB Open Access
Default wind_weighted_EF_sum_rasters.py 2018-03-30 9.04 KB Open Access
Default Ontario.zip 2018-03-30 1.08 GB Open Access
Default Michigan.zip 2018-03-30 6.1 GB Open Access
Default StClair.zip 2018-03-30 121 MB Open Access
Fn106z74g?file=thumbnail read_me.txt 2018-03-30 2.34 KB Open Access
Default cost_distance_composite.py 2018-03-30 7.23 KB Open Access
Default Erie.zip 2018-03-30 1.19 GB Open Access
Default offshore_mask.zip 2018-03-30 1.45 MB Open Access
Default Huron.zip 2018-03-30 2.58 GB Open Access
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