It’s the middle of February and there’s hardly any ice on the Great Lakes. Satellites only detected 2.99 percent of ice coverage across the lakes on February 11, which is the lowest value ever measured during the month of February. If this season were progres...
Lakes Superior, Huron and Erie are 80 to 90 percent covered. Ontario has by far the least ice coverage at just over 10 percent--down from a high of about 40-50 percent 10 days ago. The record ice coverage for all five lakes was set in 1979 at nearly 95 percent....
An unusually warm winter has left the Great Lakes all but devoid of ice and sent scientists scrambling to understand the possible consequences as climate change accelerates.
There was a significant downward trend in ice coverage from 1973 to the present for all of the lakes, with Lake Ontario having the largest, and Lakes Erie and St. Clair having the smallest. The translated total loss in lake ice over the entire 38-yr record...
The region comes alive during winter. But both culture and the economy suffer when the cold doesn’t come.
Extreme Conditions in the Bering Sea (2017–2018): Record‐Breaking Low Sea‐Ice Extent The lowest winter﹎aximum areal sea﹊ce coverage on record (1980–2019) in the Bering Sea occurred in the winter of 2017/2018. Sea ice arrived late due to ... PJ Stabeno,SW Bell - 《Geophysical Res...
Ice coverage on the lakes, which have a combined surface area roughly the size of the U.K., has generally peaked in mid-February over the last 50 years, with as much as 91% of the lakes covered at times, according to theGreat Lakes Ice Tracker website....
NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory shared a Facebook post Thursday morning that showed that all of the Great Lakes picked up some surface ice during the invasion of the Polar Vortex, with Lake Superior doubling its ice coverage from about 20% ice coverage to almost 40% this ...
Although the CIS mission is primarily focused on ice monitoring, recently the role of the CIS has been expanded to include a marine service component.The CIS receives about 4000 RADARSAT-1 scenes annually, including coverage of the Great Lakes and the eastern coast of Canada. Besides imaging ...
The presence/absence of ice cover and its seasonal growth also influence energy and heat exchanges between lakes and the overlying atmosphere. The poor spatial/temporal coverage of ground-based observations in most northern countries make remote sensing a desirable tool for investigating the response ...