Frosty Duty!: Ice-Breaking on the Great LakesKeeping the sea lanes open in winter calls for a lot of innovation by the Coast Guardsmen manning...By MuthHarold D
An incredible lack of ice on the Great Lakes this winter has raised questions regarding the possible upsides for the months aheadAfter only two strong cold snaps over the Great Lakes this winter, both of which were followed by a warmup, there isn’t ...
【题文】 Ice does all kinds of strange things on the Great Lakes: It forms perfect balls on the shore and piles up in ice tsunamis (海啸) when winds on the lake are violent in winter.【小题1】. Ice volcanoes are not, of course, real volcanoes -it’s impossible for Earth volcanoes ...
Frigid air parked over the region caused a dramatic increase in ice coverage on the Great Lakes this week There’s a glimmer of hope on the horizon for folks who live across Ontario's traditional snowbelts. Frigid temperatures enveloping the Great Lakes have led to a...
ByJohn Dodge CHICAGO (CBS)-- Last week's brief thaw melted much of the ice covering Lake Michigan, but three of the Great Lakes still remain nearly entirely on ice. The latest images from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite, show that much of Lake Michigan thawed over...
The ice on Lake Michigan has turned blue. Here's why.The ice on parts of Michigan's Great Lakes has turned blue. E1.The phenomenon is common on glaciers(冰山), but not so much on large areas of lake ice. It's happening where Lake Michigan meets Lake Huron, at a place called the...
Analysis of regional scale impacts for the small inland lakes remains a major challenge in the Great Lakes region due to lack of observations at regional scale. Regional lakes were included into a land surface modeling perspective to understand the roles of climate variability on their open water ...
Above: the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Hollyhock cuts a track line for the motor vesselAlgoseain Lake St. Clair, Feb. 19, 2014. The Coast Guard's nine Great Lakes icebreakers have put in four times as many icebreaking hours this year due to harsh winter weather. (U.S. Coast Guard ...
The region comes alive during winter. But both culture and the economy suffer when the cold doesn’t come.
This is the second rapid build-up of ice on the Great Lakes so far this season. A major cold snap in January went a long way toward building coverage this winter. Lake Erie is leading the way in total ice, with 95.3 per cent of ...