The great lakes observing system has a Great Lakes Buoy Portal that provides access to data from great lakes buoys. The link first takes one to a map where buoys can be selected. For example, buoy 45028 is near Duluth, MN. The interactive graph on the page is copied here. …
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A 2016 article in Nature, The world’s road to water scarcity: shortage and stress in the 20th century and pathways towards sustainability by M. Kummu et. a., looks at water scarcity and shortages (The dotted red line in the graph copied here is the proportion of the population dealing with …
Read More »How big will the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone be this year?
Climate.gov reports on the prediction by NOAA for the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone in the artcle Wet spring linked to forecast for big Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ this summer by Rebecca Lindsey (6/18/19). Last week, NOAA issued its annual forecast, saying that the summer dead zone—an area near the sea …
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