Weston Roundtable: Michael Notaro

The Great Lakes Basin is a hotspot of climate change, with rising air and lake temperatures, heavy precipitation events, declining lake ice cover, enhanced lake-effect snowfall, and reduced cloud cover. Here, results are presented using dynamic downscaling from global to regional level through a high-resolution climate model, interactively coupled to a lake model, with focus on projected changes in lake temperature and ice cover, lake-effect snow, winter severity, and regional hydrology.