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We have reorganized our Research Programs. Most of the research projects from this program are now organized under the Physical Environment Prediction Research Program.
GLERL EPISODIC EVENTS RESEARCH PROGRAM
Task Leader: Brian Eadie
Click here to check out the Episodic Events Great Lakes Experiment Homepage: EEGLE
Episodic Events Episodic events - storms, runoff-events, downwelling, upwelling, lake ice cover, and thermal bar formation - play a very important role in processes that affect the structure and function of nearshore ecosystems. The episodic resuspension and subsequent transport of surface sediments profoundly influences biogeochemical processes in coastal ecosystems. The magnitude and episodic nature of these processes in the Great Lakes has been poorly described in the past from a few point measurements or as the residual term in mass balance models. Determining what processes control the inshore to offshore transport of biological, chemical, and geological materials in the coastal margins of the Great Lakes and developing strategies to quantify and predict the impacts of these events are some of the goals of this research program.
Current Projects
Recent Episodic Events Research Program Publications
Click here to check out all EEGLE Publications
Rao, Y.R., M.J. McCORMICK, and C.R. Murthy. Circulation during winter and northerly storm events in southern Lake Michigan. Journal of Geophysical Research 109:C01010 (2004). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2004/20040001.pdf
BELETSKY, D., D. J. SCHWAB, R. P. Roebber, M. J. McCORMICK, G. S. MILLER and J. H. SAYLOR. Modeling wind-driven circulation during the March 1998 sediment resuspension event in Lake Michigan. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(C2):20-1 to 20-13 (2003).
LANG, G. A. and D. J. SCHWAB. Episodic Events: Great Lakes Experiment Data Archive. NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, 2 CD-ROM Set (2003).
Last updated: 2004-05-15 jjs