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Book Synopsis Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region by : Thomas Dietz
Download or read book Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region written by Thomas Dietz and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People living in the Great Lakes region are already feeling the effects of a changing climate. Shifts in seasonal temperatures and precipitation patterns could have dramatic impacts on the economy, ecology, and quality of life. In this illuminating and thorough volume, leading scholars address the challenge of preparing for climate change in the region, where decision makers from various sectors—government, agriculture, recreation, and tourism—must increasingly be aware of the need to incorporate climate change into their short- and long-term planning. The chapters in this revealing book, written by some of the foremost climate change scholars in North America, outline the major trends in the climate of the Great Lakes region, how humans might cope with the uncertainty of climate change impacts, and examples of on-the-ground projects that have addressed these issues.
Book Synopsis Great Lakes Climate Change Project by : Clare M. Ryan
Download or read book Great Lakes Climate Change Project written by Clare M. Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the First U.S.-Canada Symposium on Impacts of Climate Change on the Great Lakes Basin by :
Download or read book Report of the First U.S.-Canada Symposium on Impacts of Climate Change on the Great Lakes Basin written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin Project on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change and Variability by : Linda D. Mortsch
Download or read book Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin Project on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change and Variability written by Linda D. Mortsch and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There still is much uncertainty about the timing, the rate and the magnitude of climate change in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin (GLSLB); yet concern for potential impacts remains. The GLSLB contains 20 percent of the world's fresh water and is home to over 42.5 million people. It is a region rich in human and natural resources, with diverse economic activities and complex infrastructures. Significant economic restructuring and environmental changes are underway. Governments, industries and other Basin interests will have the added complication of managing the multiple activities within the Basin under the exacerbating conditions of potential climate change. This challenge must be addressed: first through research, and then by applying the research to all levels of management within the Basin.
Book Synopsis Climate Change in the Upper Great Lakes Region by : Peter J. Sousounis
Download or read book Climate Change in the Upper Great Lakes Region written by Peter J. Sousounis and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Lakes/ St. Lawrence Project by : Biljana Music
Download or read book The Great Lakes/ St. Lawrence Project written by Biljana Music and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Lakes Water Wars by : Peter Annin
Download or read book The Great Lakes Water Wars written by Peter Annin and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.
Book Synopsis Adapting to Climate Change and Variablity in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin by : Linda D. Mortsch
Download or read book Adapting to Climate Change and Variablity in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin written by Linda D. Mortsch and published by Canadian Government Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents proceedings of a symposium held to assess the risks of climate change and variability in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin and identify sustainable adaptation responses through the integration of various stakeholder perspectives. The proceedings included keynote presentations, poster papers, panel sessions, and working groups. Topics covered include Canadian and US research activities and scientific advances made in the areas of climate change, impacts and adaptation assessment, and climate prediction; impacts and risks of climate change and variability, and adaptation to those impacts and risks, from the point of view of such stakeholders as watershed managers, electric utilities, water suppliers, farmers, and governments; and future directions in water use and management, human health, land use and management, and ecosystem health.
Book Synopsis Potential Climate Change Effects on Great Lakes Hydrodynamics and Water Quality by : David C. L. Lam
Download or read book Potential Climate Change Effects on Great Lakes Hydrodynamics and Water Quality written by David C. L. Lam and published by ASCE Publications. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a state-of-the-art review of the climate change effects on lake hydrodynamics and water quality. Most of the engineering cases in this book deal with the ability of existing infrastructure to cope with extreme weather conditions. The case studies are intended to illustrate the advancement in modeling research on lake hydrodynamics, thermal stratification, pollutant transport, and water quality by highlighting the climate change aspects in the application of these techniques. Topics include climate and lake responses, lake thermodynamics, large-scale circulation, wind-waves on large lakes, great lakes ice cover, and water quality.
Book Synopsis Climate Change and Great Lakes Basin Wetlands by : Carrie Konig
Download or read book Climate Change and Great Lakes Basin Wetlands written by Carrie Konig and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by : Dan Egan
Download or read book The Death and Life of the Great Lakes written by Dan Egan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.
Book Synopsis Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change and Variability by :
Download or read book Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change and Variability written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin project is a multi-year undertaking that is part of the Canadian Federal Green Plan initiative. The goal of the project is to conduct interdisciplinary, integrated studies on the physical, biological, social, and economic impacts of climate change and variability for the area. Regional adaptation strategies to deal with a changing climate will also be explored. This report summarizes the discussions held by the working groups on water management, ecosystem health, land use and management, and human health. It also provides abstracts for papers presented on the project; on information in the decision-making and policy-making process for forestry, water resources, agriculture, and climate change; the state of understanding of climate-sensitive issues; and integration of the regional and economic impacts of climate change.
Book Synopsis Strategies for Adapting Great Lakes Coastal Ecosystems to Climate Change by : Kristen Schmitt
Download or read book Strategies for Adapting Great Lakes Coastal Ecosystems to Climate Change written by Kristen Schmitt and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural resources practitioners working in Great Lakes coastal ecosystems face decisions about how to help coastal properties adapt to climate changes. Climate change can amplify existing stressors, interact with past coastal disturbance and management, and potentially increase the rate and magnitude of ongoing change (Shannon et al. 2019). Practitioners can strengthen their long-term plans through proactive and intentional consideration of climate changes and by selecting adaptation options that address these changes while meeting management goals and objectives. In 2019-2021 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science convened regional managers and scientists to develop a menu of climate adaptation strategies and approaches for Great Lakes coastal ecosystems. This menu can be used along with a structured decision-making framework to facilitate planning and implementation of climate-informed tactics. The menu was tested with several organizations in project-level planning in the Great Lakes watershed
Book Synopsis Future Hydroclimate Variables and Lake Levels for the Great Lakes Using Data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 by :
Download or read book Future Hydroclimate Variables and Lake Levels for the Great Lakes Using Data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report summarizes the work done by the National Hydrological Service of Environment and Climate Change Canada as part of the Wetlands working group of the Great Lakes Protection Initiatives for a project designed to assess and enhance the resilience of Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands. A critical component of this study was to identify the amount and rate of climate change to which wetlands are likely to be exposed. A key role of NHS was to project future water levels of the Great Lakes from various simulations of the future climate as input to a wetlands response model. While the focus of this effort was on the response of wetland vegetation to changes in climate, it is recognized that many other interests within the Great Lakes basin will also have an interest in the results"--Executive summary, page 2.
Download or read book Great Lakes Update written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis THE GREAT LAKES CLIMATE ANALYSIS USING A TWO-WAY COUPLED 3-D GREAT LAKES -ATMOSPHERE REGIONAL MODEL WITH DATA ASSIMILATION METHODOLOGY by :
Download or read book THE GREAT LAKES CLIMATE ANALYSIS USING A TWO-WAY COUPLED 3-D GREAT LAKES -ATMOSPHERE REGIONAL MODEL WITH DATA ASSIMILATION METHODOLOGY written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract : The objective of this work is to provide the best estimation of physical state of the Great Lakes using the two-way coupled Great Lakes-Atmosphere Regional Model (GLARM) integrated with Data Assimilation (DA) methodology. The aim of the first part is to understand the lake internal process that determines the relationship between lake surface temperature (LST) and lake thermal variations. A 3-D hydrodynamic model was used to examine the nonlinear processes of water mixing and ice formation that caused changes in lake heat content and further variation of LST. The results show that heat content trends do not necessarily follow (and can even be opposed to) trends in LST. In addition, the lake total lake heat content, thermal properties, length of stratification periods, and lake stability intensity were analyzed using validated GLARM 3-D results from 1983-2016. Furthermore, the lake thermal variations were analyzed using physical stability indices. The results reveal that climate change would not only affect the air-lake energy exchange but can also alter lake internal dynamics. In the second part, a Great Lakes forecast system with both long-term and short-term predictions is presented. A downscaled, robust, and sophisticated two-way coupled GLARM model was used to project the climate change over the Great Lakes region over the periods of 2030 - 2050 and 2080 - 2100. Two Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) emissions scenarios (RCP4.5, RCP8.5) were included. As a result, the stress in air temperature and precipitation during the period of 2080 - 2100 under the high emission scenario (RCP8.5) will be exacerbated with larger spatial variability compared with the medium emission scenario (RCP4.5). For lake conditions, annual mean LST of Lake Erie shows the largest changes among the five lakes. The decrease in the mean lake ice coverage is projected over all the five lakes, while the largest decrease occurs along the coast. Furthermore, the application of DA using Lake Erie as a case study was evaluated. The results show that DA can effectively improve the model performance with limited observational data. The data assimilative model also improves forecasting accuracy and restrains the forecasting uncertainty to an acceptable level on a timescale of 1-7 days after unleashed from DA.
Book Synopsis Laurentian Great Lakes Basin Climate Change Adaptation by : Dawn Nelson
Download or read book Laurentian Great Lakes Basin Climate Change Adaptation written by Dawn Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report contains the results of Phase I, a synthesis of existing knowledge on training and information needs and preliminary data collection, funded by the NOAA Sea Grant Climate Engagement Project. Phase II will include comprehensive data collection and be funded by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and coordinated by Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve. Phase II results and recommendations will be compiled as a companion document to this report. These organizations will utilize the results of both phases of this needs assessment to design climate change adaptation training for Great Lakes coastal community decision-makers and professionals. Study results and recommendations can also guide future investments in Great Lakes climate change adaptation training. This issue areas reported here include background information, climate impacts, and relevant roles for stakeholder engagement. This is followed by categorizing needs in two sections: research, planning, and policy needs, and then education and training needs. This information is included in each chapter. Some chapters also include more precise information for specific issue areas that have been placed in the overarching chapter theme. However, these specific issue areas are relevant to numerous issues in the complexity of climate change adaptation, and should be considered in the overall context of both mitigation and adaptation planning"--Executive summary.
