Biophysical effects of a decadal shift in summer wind direction over the Laurentian Great Lakes

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Global Change: Biogeochemical Processes (4805), Global Change: Climate Dynamics (3309), Hydrology: Limnology, Oceanography: General: Climate And Interannual Variability (3309), Oceanography: Biological And Chemical: Benthic Processes/Benthos

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Analysis of summer surface wind fields over the Laurentian Great Lakes from 1980 to 1999 show a statistically significant shift in wind direction beginning around 1990. Directional changes in the average wind field over the Great Lakes basin are consistent with a southward migration of the dominant summer storm track. In Green Bay (NW Lake Michigan), we show that the new wind field has most likely resulted in a decrease in water mass exchange with Lake Michigan leading to a decrease in bottom water hypoxia, warmer bottom water temperatures and an increase in benthic microbial metabolism.

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