Lake Levels - Great Lake Water Levels

Great Lakes Water Levels. Great Lakes water levels constitute one of the longest high quality hydrometeorological data sets in North America with reference gage records beginning about 1860 with sporadic records back to the early 1800's. These levels are collected and archived by NOAA's National Ocean Service.

Great Lakes Monthly Hydrologic Data (T. Hunter) NOAA Technical Memorandum TM-083 (1994). Hydrologic data: overlake precipitation, runoff, lake evaporation, net basin supplies, connecting channel flows, diversion flows, beginning of month lake levels, and changes in storage.

GLERL AHPS Products (Experimental). Links to plots for monthly values of inflow, outflow, total supply and mean lake level for each of the Great Lakes and Lake St. Clair. For each lake there is also a page (accessed by clicking on the lake name) with many other hydrology and meteorology variables.

Great Lakes Storm Surge Planning Program (SSPP). NOAA Technical Memorandum TM-065. D.J. Schwab and E. W. Lynn (1987). A computer program for estimating maximum and minimum storm surge water levels for the Great Lakes.

MIDLAKES: A Coordinated Hydrologic Response Model for the Middle Great Lakes. NOAA Technical Memorandum TM-109. A.H. Clites and D. Lee (1998). A model for simulating quater-monthly lake levels and connecting channel flows for the middle Great Lakes (Michigan, Huron, St. Clair, and Erie).

Last updated: 2004-02-18 jjs