SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED WATER SURFACE TEMPERATURE MODELING FOR THE GREAT LAKES

This paper describes the development and validation of a water temperature model for the Great Lakes.This model is keyed to simulate horizontally and temporally varying surface temperature.An ice cover model is coupled with the water temperature model,forming a spatially distributed thermodynamic model for the Great Lakes.This model can be used to give long term or short term simulations of water surface temperature and ice cover for the Great Lakes.