Hydroclimatology Of The Great Lakes Region Of North America

Explains the atmospheric processes underlying the characteristic weather patterns of the Great Lakes region and evaluates the role of air pollution and nuclear power plants.

The symposium concluded that there is a high likelihood of a major climatic change in the Great Lakes Basin, and recommended that the U. S. and Canada establish a joint planning group to develop an integrated study of the Great Lakes Basin as a regional pilot project.

A graduate textbook on the interdisciplinary significance of hydroclimatology, explaining the relationship between the climate system and the hydrologic cycle.

Study to determine the normal structure of the Great Lakes surface water temperature field and the normal variability in the field throughout the year. Grid point temperature data were used to compute the daily normal temperature and variability through the year at the grid point locations. Daily mean temperature and standard deviation were computed for each of the days of the year, for every grid point and for each lake as a whole. The lake-wide daily mean temperature and standard deviation tables and the annual temperature curves are based directly on the results of the data analyses. The beginning-of-month and middle-of-month temperature/variability maps were constructed by plotting the computed grid point temperature and standard deviation values for the corresponding day and then contouring the temperature and variability patterns.