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JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
Volume 25, Issue 17, Pages 5807-5816Publisher
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00495.1
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [40805041, 41175086]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [1116020701]
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The surface air and water temperatures increased at all seasonal and annual time scales during the last 40 yr in Lake Ontario. The annual mean air and surface water temperatures have increased by 1.43 degrees +/- 0.39 degrees and 1.26 degrees +/- 0.32 degrees C, respectively, over 1970-2009. The air temperature increased at a faster rate than the surface water temperature in winter and autumn, whereas in spring and summer the surface water temperature warmed faster than the air temperature. The length of summer stratified season has increased by 12 +/- 2 days since the early 1970s due to the increase in water temperature. The decline of surface wind speed over Lake Ontario resulted in a shallower surface mixed layer and enhanced the summer thermal stratification, which increased the summer surface water temperature more rapidly than the air temperature.
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