Great Lakes Calendar

Climate, Chemistry and the Great Lakes: What Goes Up Must Come Down: The Laurentian Great Lakes can influence regional climate and chemistry through a variety of mechanisms, and I’ll discuss these chemistry-climate interactions from the perspective of what goes up (e.g., water via evaporation, aerosols via lake spray) versus what comes down (e.g., aerosol deposition of nutrients, precipitation). From the climate perspective, we analyze the atmospheric moisture budget in the Great Lakes region using reanalyses and future climate model data to develop a process-level understanding of the precipitation seasonality. We identify the lakes not only as a source of moisture, but also in generating localized moisture flux convergence/divergence patterns that affect the seasonality of the water cycle. Despite differences in historical simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) data archive… (view more on the website)

Event website: https://ciglr.seas.umich.edu/event/092724-allison-steiner/
Contact: Margaret Throckmorton, University of Michigan Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research
Email: [email protected] 
Phone: (734) 647-3299