UDC 661.676.11:661.668.1:661.607.362.2(0&1.1) (2~:71/73)“1971.01.30/31” PICTURE OF THE MONTH “Steam Devils ” Over Lake Michigan During a January Arctic Outbreak’

• Main Authors: Walter A. Lyons, Steven R. Pease-department Of Geography
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.395.2069; http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/100/mwr-100-03-0235.pdf

January 1971 was one of the colder winter months of this century in Wisconsin, and, because Lake Michigan remained largely ice-freeJ there mere many spectacular manifestations of the Great Lakes influence upon mesoscale meteorological conditions such as snow squalls. The upcoming (1972-73) International Field Year for the Great Lakes (IFYGL) will, among other things, be concerned with the various aspects of air-mater interaction during winter from both the theoretical and observational viewpoints. In light of the recent interest in small-scale atmospheric vortexes, such as the waterspout studies of Golden (1971) and thc dust devil investigations of IZaimal and Businger (1970), we would like to suggest an additional