Northern Lake Impacts on Local Seasonal Climate

Long, Z.; Perrie, W.; Gyakum, J.; Caya, D. et Laprise, René (2007). « Northern Lake Impacts on Local Seasonal Climate ». Journal of Hydrometeorology, 8(4), pp. 881-896.

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It is well known that large lakes can perturb local weather and climate through mesoscale circulations, for example, lake effects on storms and lake breezes, and the impacts on fluxes of heat, moisture, and momentum. However, for both large and small lakes, the importance of atmosphere–lake interactions in northern Canada is largely unknown. Here, the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM) is used to simulate seasonal time scales for the Mackenzie River basin and northwest region of Canada, coupled to simulations of Great Bear and Great Slave Lakes using the Princeton Ocean Model (POM) to examine the interactions between large northern lakes and the atmosphere. The authors consider the lake impacts on the local water and energy cycles and on regional seasonal climate. Verification of model results is achieved with atmospheric sounding and surface flux data collected during the Canadian Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) program. The coupled atmosphere–lake model is shown to be able to successfully simulate the variation of surface heat fluxes and surface water temperatures and to give a good representation of the vertical profiles of water temperatures, the warming and cooling processes, and the lake responses to the seasonal and interannual variation of surface heat fluxes. These northern lakes can significantly influence the local water and energy cycles.

Type: Article de revue scientifique
Mots-clés ou Sujets: Lake effects, Regional effects, Seasonal effects
Unité d'appartenance: Faculté des sciences > Département des sciences de la Terre et de l'atmosphère
Déposé par: René Laprise
Date de dépôt: 07 avr. 2016 18:15
Dernière modification: 19 avr. 2016 19:06
Adresse URL : http://archipel.uqam.ca/id/eprint/8100

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