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Spatiotemporal regime of climate and streamflow in the U.S. Great Lakes Basin

Boris Shmagin¹, Carol Johnston¹ & Nir Krakauer²

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1. South Dakota State University, USA
2. City College of New York, NY, USA

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Received 26 May 2009 16:24 UTC; Posted 27 May 2009

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Earth & Environment

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• Great Lakes
• climate variability
• multi-scales
• multivariable analysis

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We analyzed interannual and seasonal regimes of river runoff, precipitation, and air temperature for three nested regions: (1) the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, (2) the U.S. portion of the Great Lakes Basin, and (3) glaciated portions of the northeastern U.S. spanning from the Dakotas to New England. Data sources included historical records of 50 to 105 years duration from 45 USGS gauging stations and 198 U.S. National Climate Network stations, and satellite-derived estimates of global monthly precipitation gridded at 2.5 resolution for 1979-2008 (partly data about precipitations were collected and passed for analysis by Glenn Hodgkins from USGS). We examined the spatiotemporal variability of climate characteristics for these regions as a multidimensional structure obtained from empirical data using factor analysis. The structure consisted of a few (2 to 7) centers of variability for each characteristic, and reflected the diversity of landscapes within the regions examined. Trends and regime shifts for mutual time intervals of river runoff, precipitation and temperature showed different direction of changes. The results obtained at the three scales were generally in agreement.

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“BRIDGING Ecosystems Environmental Health and across our GREAT LAKES” 52nd Annual Conference of International Association for Great Lakes Research. University of Toledo – Toledo, OHIO, U.S., 21 May 2009

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Shmagin, Boris, Johnston, Carol, and Krakauer, Nir. Spatiotemporal regime of climate and streamflow in the U.S. Great Lakes Basin. Available from Nature Precedings <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3289.1> (2009)

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