great lakes research

Alkalinity, pH, and pCO2 in the Laurentian Great Lakes: An initial view of seasonal and inter-annual trends

April 4, 2022

Ongoing human perturbations to the global inorganic carbon cycle can cause various changes in the pH and alkalinity of aquatic systems.

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Volume Transport by a 3D Quasigeostrophic Heton

April 4, 2022

Oceanic flows self-organize into coherent vortices, which strongly influence their transport and mixing properties.

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Remote and autonomous measurements of precipitation for the northwestern Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Feb. 1, 2022

The Antarctic Precipitation System project deployed and maintained four sites across the northwestern Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica from November 2017 to November 2019.

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Julie Lundquist named AMS Fellow

Feb. 1, 2022

Please join us in congratulating Associate Professor Julie Lundquist in being named an AMS Fellow.

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Opinion: To assess marine cloud brightening's technical feasibility, we need to know what to study—and when to stop

Feb. 1, 2022

To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, it’s paramount that we decarbonize the economy and preserve and restore natural ecosystems.

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Spurious Late Historical-Era Warming in CESM2 Driven by Prescribed Biomass Burning Emissions

Feb. 1, 2022

A spurious increase in the interannual variability of prescribed biomass burning (BB) emissions in the CMIP6 forcing database during the satellite era of wildfire monitoring (1997–2014) is found to lead to warming in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics in simulations with the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2).

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Great Plains storm intensity since the last glacial controlled by spring surface warming

Feb. 1, 2022

Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) supply a substantial portion of warm-season rainfall to the Great Plains of North America, and they are responsible for severe weather and flooding across the central United States.

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Multi-Century Changes in the Ocean Carbon Cycle Controlled by the Tropical Oceans and the Southern Ocean

Feb. 1, 2022

The oceanic absorption of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) is expected to continue in the following centuries, but the processes driving these changes remain uncertain

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Professor Brian Toon named AAAS Fellow

Jan. 26, 2022

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society, today announced that ATOC Professor Brian Toon will join the ranks of its newest class of AAAS Fellows.

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Air-sea coupling shapes North American hydroclimate response to ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum

Dec. 7, 2021

US West Coast rainfall was VERY different during the last ice age, why? We use new CESM experiments to find out! Take home point - North Pacific ocean temps, not ice sheets directly, responsible for hydroclimate shifts.

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