The Great Lakes and their drainage basin(more) Great Lakes, chain of deep freshwater lakes in east-central North America comprising Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. They are one of the great natural features of the continent and of the Earth. Although Lake Baikal in Russia...
The Great Lakes helped make the U.S. an economic powerhouse. Now climate change, pollution, and invasive species threaten their complex ecosystems.
In recent years, the increased temperature has also led to the onset of the blue-green alga Microsysti in the Pacific Drainage Basin (PDB). Over the most recent 40 years, human activities have had a visible effect on the large lakes situated in the human-dominated PDB. Large lakes in ...
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Marine Geology and Geophysics Report MGG-14, Boulder, map. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/greatlakes/erie/ NOAA (2007) Water levels of the Great Lakes. NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor. http://www.glerl.noaa.gov ...
Problem Problem D: Great Lakes Water Problem Background The Great Lakes of the United States and Canada are the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world. The five lakes and connecting waterways constitute a massive drainage basin that contains many large urban areas in these two countries,...
Case Studies: Drainage Water Phosphorus Losses in the Great Lakes Basin.Douglas R. Smith
Overview|Climate /Map|Things To Do|Camping /Lodging|Nearby Natural & Cultural History Geology Centered on Nevada but extending into neighboring states, the Great Basin Desert stretches from California's Sierra Nevada Range on the west to the Rockies of Utah on the east. The region is one of ...
Figure 1. The Great Lakes basin land-water mask showing land in dark gray, islands in black, and water surface in light gray. The offshore buoys used to calculate wind data summaries are shown as "+" marks. White lines designate the exposure/fetch regions used to create the composite ...
This interactive map shows the sites of the currently operating nuclear reactors in the Great Lakes basin. The watersheds of the five Great Lakes are colored. Hover over the layers button in the lower left-hand corner to reveal the map legend. ...
lakes called playas on the valley floor and eventually evaporates. Any water that falls as rain or snow into this region does not escape out of it; not one of the streams that originate within this basin ever find an outlet to the ocean. The extent of internal drainage, the area in ...