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Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AGU Fall 2007 B41F-03 Ankur Desai AOS 405, Spring 2010 Why Has Wind Speed Increased Over Lake Superior?

Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring What’s Happening in the Great Lakes?

Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring Why Great Lakes Are Interesting Important freshwater source = 22% of world’s fresh surface water, could cover all of lower 48 with 3m of water Great Lakes important to regional economy Large lakes are regional sentinels of climate change Great Lakes more ocean-like than lake-like in physical and biogeochemical processes Great Lakes have been globally important long term sinks of carbon in sediments

Why Lake Superior Is Interesting Largest freshwater lake in world by area –82,400 km 2 3 rd largest freshwater lake by volume –Average depth 147m, max 406m Relatively undeveloped shoreline –But important shipping route Large enough to create regional microclimate –180 year residence time of water = buffer effect Midwestern location = strongly affected by cyclones and climate warming Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Complex System But data are sparse! Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

(Surprising) Large Variability Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

What Is My Lab Doing Getting Wet? My lab studies surface-atmosphere interaction, boundary-layer meteorology, and terrestrial biogeochemistry/carbon cycle Regional climate changes interact with boundary layer, surface-atmosphere exchange, and biogeochemistry We use experiments, observation diagnoses, and model-data syntheses to answer questions about these systems We are funded to work on Lake Superior biogeochemistry with Galen McKinley Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Overview Climate Trends Wind Speed Physical Models of Lake Superior Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring Climate Trends

Temperature Cycle Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Temperature Profiles Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Temperature Trends Air: 1.05 C decade -1 vs Lake: 1.21 C decade -1 Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Histogram of Shifts Dotted = , solid = Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Land Surface Effect? 0.7 C decade -1 in 2m temps over land C decade -1 land surface-air diff. Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring Ice Trends Declining trends in mean ice cover

Ice Influences Summer Temp Austin and Colman (2007) Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

The Long View Austin and Colman (2008) Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Warming Trends Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Season Length Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Putting It All Together Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Lake Level Effect? Evaporation increases, runoff decreases? Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Regional Water Levels Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring Wind Speed Trend

Sparse Observations Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Messy Observations Buoy observations corrected for a vector- averaging low bias Satellite scatterometery used to evaluate wind speeds in latter part of record Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Observed Trend Over Lake 0.22 m s -1 dec -1 vs 0.15 m s -1 dec -1 Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Wind Speed Distribution Shifts are due to central tendency not gusts Dotted = , solid = Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Stability Effect on Wind DT = Lake temp – Air temp Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Basin Average Relationship X: Water-air temp gradient Y: Land-above lake wind speed difference Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

An Alternate Hypothesis Klump et al (2002) Shift in storm track? Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

An Alternate Hypothesis Doesn’t seem to be the case here Dotted = , solid = Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Large Scale Circulation Reanalysis does suggest an increase from 1980s-2000s in regional wind speeds at 850 mb of 0.15 m s -1 dec -1, but not significant Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring Physical Models of Lake Superior

Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring What We Know

Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring Computation domain: 2km MIT-GCM ocean model applied to a lake

Why 2km? Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring Model Progress Forced with NARR 32km surface meteorology

Model Progress Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Model Progress Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Wind Speed Impacts Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Conclusions Regional warming is reducing ice cover Reduced ice cover is increasing summer stratified season length and temperatures faster than air temperatures One consequence is higher wind speeds –However, alternate hypotheses related to large- scale circulation needs more examination Progress is being made on modeling the effect of these wind speed and temperature trends on lake currents and biogeochemistry Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring

Thanks Thanks to J. Austin (U MN Duluth / LLO), V. Bennington (UW-Madison), G. McKinley (UW- Madison) Funding from NSF/OCN Carbon and Water Desai, A.R., Austin, J.A., Bennington, V., and McKinley, G.A., Stronger winds over a large lake in response to a weakening air to lake temperature gradient. Nature- Geoscience, , doi: /NGEO693. Ankur R Desai, UW-Madison AOS 405, Spring