期刊
OCEAN MODELLING
卷 65, 期 -, 页码 40-63出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.02.003
关键词
Great Lakes; General circulation; Thermal structure; Modeling; FVCOM
资金
- National Research Council Research association Fellowship
- NOAA GLERL
- EPA/NOAA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
An unstructured Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model was applied to all five Great Lakes simultaneously to simulate circulation and thermal structure from 1993 to 2008. Model results are compared to available observations of currents and temperature and previous modeling work. Maps of climatological circulation for all five Great lakes are presented. Winter currents show a two-gyre type circulation in Lakes Ontario and Erie and one large-scale cyclonic circulation in Lakes Michigan, Huron, and Superior. During the summer, a cyclonic circulation remains in Lakes Superior; a primarily cyclonic circulation dominates upper and central Lake Huron; Lake Ontario has a single cyclonic circulation, while circulation in the central basin of Lake Erie remains two-gyre type; Lake Michigan has a cyclonic gyre in the north and an anticyclonic one in the south. The temperature profile during the summer is well simulated when a surface wind-wave mixing scheme is included in the model. Main features of the seasonal evolution of water temperature, such as inverse temperature stratification during the winter, the spring and autumn overturn, the thermal bar, and the stratification during summer are well reproduced. The lakes exhibit significant annual and interannual variations in current speed and temperature. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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