So, this past winter as the extreme and extended cold spell continued in Michigan and the mid-continent, I was noting
the Great Lakes ice growth in detail on both NOAA and the Canadian Ice Services websites.
And I think we can probably prove that with correlations to proxies like
Great Lakes ice, economic reports, etc..
Again how is emissions reduction going to affect all these different facets of the climate system to bring about a reversal in what has occurred over the past half century to
the Great Lakes ice?
1979 was the year that
the great lakes ice coverage record was set that still stands and was not broken this year, but it came within 1 - 2 percent of being broken (~ 94 %).
Expertise: climate change, Greenland Ice Sheet, ice sheet modeling, sea level rise, Antarctica,
Great Lakes ice cover
Wang, J., X. Bai, H. Hu, A. Clites, M. Colton, and B. Lofgren, 2012: Temporal and spatial variability of
Great Lakes ice cover, 1973 - 2010.
Decreased ice cover: Increasingly mild winters have shortened the time between when a lake freezes and when it thaws.92 Scientists have documented a relatively constant decrease in
Great Lakes ice cover since the 1970s, particularly for Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Ontario.
When I look at
the Great Lakes Ice coverage using Environment Canada Ice Service, I see regions of ice along the shores and bays and waters between islands, 0.5 % of ice coverage so far.
Note that
Great Lakes ice is at record highs.
Not exact matches
I cut the butter in the
icing down to 2 TBSP and I use a high quality chocolate from a specialty baking and cooking store (Gygi's is
great if you're in the Salt
Lake City, UT area!).
Over the past two winters, there wasn't much
ice cover on the
Great Lakes.
The properties of the climate system include not just familiar concepts of averages of temperature, precipitation, and so on but also the state of the ocean and the cryosphere (sea
ice, the
great ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers, snow, frozen ground, and
ice on
lakes and rivers).
The
Great Lakes were shaped by
ice ages that sent glaciers sweeping over much of the northern hemisphere.
Schimdt has found evidence that warm ocean currents and convective forces beneath Europa's frozen shell can cause large blocks of
ice to overturn and melt, bringing vast pockets of water, sometimes holding as much liquid as all of the
Great Lakes combined, to within several kilometers of the moon's icy surface.
Survival of the Asian carp in the deep, windblown, and, in winter,
ice - covered waters of the
Great Lakes is one thing, but development of a breeding population there is quite another.
By taking
ice samples for the last five winters and analyzing for the chlorophyll produced by algae and photosynthetic bacteria, Twiss and his team have determined that from November to April the
Lake experiences
great primary productivity, more so than in spring or summer.
On November 16, 2011, scientists announced that data from NASA's Galileo probe (which operated from 1989 to 2003) appear to reveal at least two bodies of liquid water the volume of the North America's
Great Lakes underneath the surface
ice of Europa.
These
lakes occur as a result of geothermal heat trapped by the thick
ice, melting it from underneath, and the
great pressure from the
ice above, which lowers the melting point of water.
The
Great Lakes and the Finger
Lakes were carved by
ice deepening old valleys.
According to George Leskevich, a physical research scientist with the
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich., there is also a long - term downward trend in
Great Lakes wintertime
ice cover, although there is considerable year - to - year variability.
Capital Weather Gang examined summer temperatures examined summer temperatures following the five highest
ice years on the
Great Lakes and found that they were below normal for much of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic.
April has come and gone but a record amount of
ice still remains on the
Great Lakes.
At the close of April, nearly a quarter of the five
Great Lakes — the largest group of lakes on Earth — still have ice on them and ice is likely to linger for weeks to come according to the Great Lakes Environmental Research Labora
Lakes — the largest group of
lakes on Earth — still have ice on them and ice is likely to linger for weeks to come according to the Great Lakes Environmental Research Labora
lakes on Earth — still have
ice on them and
ice is likely to linger for weeks to come according to the
Great Lakes Environmental Research Labora
Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory.
Snowball fights are fun and all, but if you really want to up your game or possibly fend off a White Walker invasion, you should head on over to the
Great Lakes to pick up some
ice balls.
Near Yellowknife, in Canada's remote Northwest Territories, Volkswagen showed us some of the science that goes into creating massive
ice highways like those you've seen on shows such as «Ice Road Truckers» — or, for locals, routes like Dettah Road, which traverses a portion of the Great Slave Lake's 300 - mile span, enabling vehicular access to areas reachable only by boat most of the ye
ice highways like those you've seen on shows such as «
Ice Road Truckers» — or, for locals, routes like Dettah Road, which traverses a portion of the Great Slave Lake's 300 - mile span, enabling vehicular access to areas reachable only by boat most of the ye
Ice Road Truckers» — or, for locals, routes like Dettah Road, which traverses a portion of the
Great Slave
Lake's 300 - mile span, enabling vehicular access to areas reachable only by boat most of the year.
Moved to
lake and selling to buy a pick - up, A / C
ice cold, Heated and cooled seats, Excellent condition, Factory GPS system, Fully loaded with all the goodies, Chrome package for limited edition, All scheduled maintenance, Looks
great and drives like a dream, Never seen snow, Non-smoker, Seats like new, Title in hand, Very clean interior, Well maintained and lovingly owned.
Applebee's — Westgate B. A. Sweetie Company Bonefish Grill — Westlake Campbell's Sweets Factory Dewey's Pizza — Lakewood Erie Island Coffee First Watch — Rocky River Fresco Mexican Grill & Salsa Bar — Rocky River
Great Lakes Brewery Jersey Mike's Subs — Westgate Liquid Planet Mitchell's
Ice Cream Rival's Sports Grille — Middleburg Hts.
Groove marks scoured in bedrock by this
ice sheet now hold one fifth of the entire planets fresh
lake water in the
Great Lakes of the northeastern United States.
Stephanie March and Stephanie Hansen, Co-Hosts of the Weekly Dish podcast, share some of their favorite local restaurants, and freelance travel writer Lisa Meyers McClintick extols her favorites of the area's virtues like
Lake Harriet's art shanties, the
Ice Palace, the
Great River Road, and Can Can Wonderland — a mini golf destination in a former canning factory.
Lisa Meyers McClintick, a freelance travel writer, extols her favorites of the area's virtues like
Lake Harriet's art shanties, the
Ice Palace, the
Great River Road, and Can Can Wonderland — a mini golf destination in a former canning factory.
This is also true for trends in temperatures and
ice break up mostly everywhere else too, despite individual years (like 2013/2014) being anomalously cold (for instance in the
Great Lakes region).
Because I hold a degree in geology, and spent many days of my college career puzzling out the glacial history of the
Great Lakes region, Nye's statements about
ice ages were especially astonishing.
The Winter Alberta Clipper dries out the
Great Lakes if there is no
ice cover.
The «models» say that
ice on the
Great Lakes will be rare / declining in the future, yet, as I type this (about 100 feet south of the southern shore of
Lake Ontario) there is more
ice on the water than I have seen in the last 3 decades.
Air pressure changes, allergies increase, Alps melting, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, algal blooms, Asthma, avalanches, billions of deaths, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cannibalistic polar bears, cardiac arrest, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, methane emissions from plants, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, cold spells, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, damages equivalent to $ 200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, disaster for wine industry (US), Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, drowning polar bears, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, earthquakes, Earth light dimming, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, El Nià ± o intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis,, Everest shrinking, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (ladybirds, pandas, pikas, polar bears, gorillas, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang - utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, glacial retreat, glacial growth, global cooling, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence,
Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths,
ice sheet growth,
ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, Inuit displacement, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, landslides, landslides of
ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawyers» income increased (surprise surprise!)
Atmospheric teleconnection patterns associated with severe and mild
ice cover on the
Great Lakes, 1963 — 2011
Climate change:
Ice duration on the
Great Lakes.
My query: how can there be
ice cover on the shores when there is so much heat energy in the
Great Lakes water system?
The
Great Lakes, North America's largest freshwater feature, have recently recorded higher water temperatures and less
ice cover as a result of changes in regional climate (see also Ch.
The loss of
ice cover on the
Great Lakes has both ecological and economic implications.
Uncertainties about
Great Lakes water levels are high, though most models suggest that the decrease in
ice cover will lead to slightly lower water levels, beyond natural fluctuations.
Bai, X., and J. Wang, 2012: Atmospheric teleconnection patterns associated with severe and mild
ice cover on the
Great Lakes, 1963 — 2011.
In the
Great Lakes, the average annual maximum
ice coverage during 2003 - 2013 was less than 43 % compared to the 1962 - 2013 average of 52 %, 99 lower than any other decade during the period of measurements (Figure 18.7), although there is substantial variability from year to year.
The originally hypothesized source of freshwater was the eastward routing of Glacial
Lake Agassiz from the Mississippi River to the St. Lawrence River, as the Laurentide
Ice Sheet retreated northward out of the
Great Lakes (Johnson and McClure, 1976; Rooth, 1982; Broecker, 2006).
Right now we in the
Great Lakes Region have very cold Arctic weather and
ice cover for all of the GL is running about 2 to 4 weeks ahead of October projections and the historic
ice cover for the
Great Lakes.
Great Lakes are FINALLY
ice free after record breaking seven months frozen June 10, 2014 It has been a long, cold winter for much of America — but the
Great Lakes have really suffered.
If we hindcast them a couple tens of thousands of years do they show us a mile of
ice over the
Great Lakes?
Forecasters finally revealed today that all of the
Great Lakes including
Lake Superior are now
ice free.
As the climate has warmed,
ice coverage on the
Great Lakes has fallen.
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