GC23J:
Climate Change Impacts on Inland Waters II

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Session ID#: 15917

Session Description:
Long-term trends in lake temperature and related processes can provide us with insight into the spatial heterogeneity of climate change impacts. Lakes and reservoirs are discrete points on the landscape, respond to regional climate, and are often described as “sentinels” of climate change. Recent work has shown that many lakes and reservoirs are warming worldwide, though the response is variable in space and time. Developing a stronger understanding of the relationship between regional climate change and individual lake response is an important step in understanding how inland waters respond to climate change. In addition, climate-induced changes in thermal structure are anticipated to result in changes in ecosystem function.

We welcome submissions addressing linkages between atmospheric and lake trends, as well as those focusing on the response of ecosystems to changes in the physical state of lakes.

Primary Convener:  Jay A Austin, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, United States
Conveners:  John D Lenters, University of Michigan Biological Station, Ann Arbor, United States, Simon J Hook, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and David Philip Hamilton, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Chairs:  Jay A Austin, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, United States and John D Lenters, University of Michigan Biological Station, Ann Arbor, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Simon J Hook, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1833 Hydroclimatology [HYDROLOGY]
1845 Limnology [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Rapid increase of lakes in Tibetan Plateau (119631)
Huazhong Ren1, Wenjie Fan2, Yanjuan Yao Sr.3, Dingfang Tian1, Bo Ma1, Rongyuan LIU4 and Qiming Qin1, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of RS and GIS,Peking University, Beijing, China, (3)Satellite Environment Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Beijing, China, Beijing, China, (4)China Aero Geophysical Survey and Remote Sensing Centre for Land and Resources, Beijing, China
The High Arctic’s Only Great Lake Is Succumbing To Climate Warming (122111)
Vincent L St.Louis1, Igor Lehnherr2, Sherry L Schiff3, Martin J Sharp4, John P. Smol5, Derek Muir6, Alex S Gardner7, Charles Tarnocai8, Kyra St. Pierre9, Neil Michelutti5, Craig A. Emmerton9, Colleen Mortimer9, Charles Talbot10 and Johan Wiklund10, (1)University of Alberta, Department of Biological Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)University of Toronto-Mississauga, Geography, Mississauga, ON, Canada, (3)University of Waterloo, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (4)University of Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (5)Queen's University, Biology, Kingston, ON, Canada, (6)University of Guelph, School of Environmental Sciences, Guelph, Canada, (7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (8)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (9)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (10)Environment Canada, Burlington, ON, Canada
Are Sierran Lakes Warming as a Result of Climate Change? The Effects of Climate Warming and Variation in Precipitation on Water Temperature in a Snowmelt-Dominated Lake (135610)
Steven Sadro, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, John M Melack, University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, James O Sickman, University of California, Riverside, Department of Environmental Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States and Kevin Skeen, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
Examining seasonal variations in microbial community composition and metabolism in Lake Tahoe, Sierra Nevada, California to gain insight into the role of spring freshet and lake mixing on lake microbial ecology and biogeochemistry (Invited) (199573)
Lihini Aluwihare, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
Mechanistic Lake Modeling to Understand and Predict Heterogeneous Responses to Climate Warming (168109)
Jordan Stuart Read, USGS Office of Water Information, Middleton, WI, United States, Luke A Winslow, USGS, Office of Water Information, Middleton, WI, United States, Kevin C Rose, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, Troy, NY, United States and Gretchen JA Hansen, Department of Natural Resources Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, United States
Physical Mechanisms of Rapid Lake Warming (192946)
John D Lenters, University of Michigan Biological Station, Ann Arbor, United States
Influence of Lake Stratification Onset on Summer Surface Water Temperature (Invited) (127679)
Richard Iestyn Woolway, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom and Christopher J Merchant, National Centre for Earth Observation, Reading, United Kingdom

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