The Estimation of the Surface Energy Balance of the North American Laurentian Great Lakes Using Satellite Remote Sensing and MERRA Reanalysis

• Main Author: Moukomla, Sitthisak
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: CU Scholar 2015
• Subjects: Hydro-Climate; Reanalysis; Remote Sensing; Surface Energy Balance; The Great Lakes; Climate; Fresh Water Studies; Physical and Environmental Geography; Arctic; Pacific; Merra; albedo; Climate change; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://scholar.colorado.edu/geog_gradetds/89; https://scholar.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1091&context=geog_gradetds

The Surface Energy Balance (SEB) of the Great Lakes (GL) is a key to understanding the effects of climate change on the GL. There is a high possibility of underestimating the SEB of the GL when using existing methodologies with inputs from near-shore and land-based meteorological data. This study pr...