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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
Volume 123, Issue 6, Pages 3087-3098Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2017JD027661
Keywords
Lake; Climate change; Warming
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- EUSTACE (EU Surface Temperature for All Corners of Earth) from the European Union's Horizon Programme for Research and Innovation [640171]
- European Space Agency of the ARC-Lake project
- NERC [NE/J023345/2, NE/J023345/1, NE/I030127/1, NE/I030127/2, nceo020006] Funding Source: UKRI
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Lake surface water temperature (LSWT) measurements from various sources illustrate that lakes are warming in response to climate change. Most previous studies of geographical distributions of lake warming have tended to utilize data with limited spatial resolution of LSWTs, including single-point time series. Spatially resolved LSWT time series are now available from satellite observations, and some studies have investigated previously the intralake warming patterns in specific lakes (e.g., North American Great Lakes). However, across-lake comparisons of intralake warming differences have not yet been investigated at a large, across-continental scale, thus limiting our understanding of how intralake warming patterns differ more broadly. In this study, we analyze up to 20years of satellite data from 19 lakes situated across the Northern Hemisphere, to investigate how LSWT changes vary across different lake surfaces. We find considerable intralake variability in warming trends across many lakes. The deepest areas of large lakes are characterized by a later onset of thermal stratification, a shorter stratified warming season and exhibit longer correlation timescales of LSWT anomalies. We show that deep areas of large lakes across the Northern Hemisphere as a result tend to display higher rates of warming of summer LSWT, arising from a greater temporal persistence in deep areas of the temperature anomalies associated with an earlier onset of thermal stratification. Utilization of single-point LSWT trends to represent changes in large lakes therefore suppresses important aspects of lake responses to climate change, whereas spatially resolved LSWT measurements can be exploited to provide more comprehensive understanding.
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