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Every winter the Great Lakes have a visitor, ice. What do think about ice impacts on the Great Lakes and lakes areas? Ice actually has a considering impact. Shipping is shut down for a part of the year. Fish spawning can be impacted. Shoreline structure can be damaged. Even the climate itself is impacted by the ice coverage. Ice formation insulates the water below and slows heat loss to the atmosphere. This indicates that the lakes cannot warm the air the way it does before the ice forms. |
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What kind of climate conditions do you think influence the formation of ice on
the Great Lakes? Why?
2. How would ice affect harbors, air temperature, humidity, and severe weather like winter storms on the Great Lakes? 3. How do you think global warming might affect the Great Lakes in regards to length of shipping season (currently about 10 months a year)? |
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EP-083 ES-EAGLS: Great Lakes Climate & Water Movement
2. EP-078 Global Change in the Great Lakes 3. EP-081 The Great Lakes Solution Seeker 4. R/ES-2-PD Spectral Transmittance of Sunlight through Great Lake Ice and Snow Covers |
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* Downloadable activity: How
will global warming affect Great Lakes fish? (From GLIMCES)
1. Activities for the Changing Earth System 2. The Great Lake Erie 3. Earth Systems - Education Activities for Great Lakes Schools (ES-EAGLS) Climate and Water Movement
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Remote Sensing of the Great Lakes Cryosphere http://www.geo.mtu.edu/great_lakes/ice/ 2. Great Lakes Daily Ice Observations at NOAA Water Level Gauge Sites http://nsidc.org/NSIDC/CATALOG/ENTRIES/G00945.html 3. CoastWatch - Lake Surface Temperature Reporting System http://www.coastwatch.msu.edu/ 4. Great Lakes Surface Environmental Analysis (GLSEA) http://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/glsea/glsea.html |
