Lake Michigan in motion : responses of an inland sea to weather, earth-spin, and human activities
Publication Information
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.
Physical Description
xix, 310 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Contents
- Three centuries of physical inquiry
- The lake basin : excavated by ice, shaped by shore erosion and sediment transport
- Water levels and flows
- The seasonal cycles of heating/cooling and layering/mixing
- Parade of lake currents
- Categories and models of waves
- Long surface waves : seiches, tides, and storm surges
- Probing the underwater wave field
- Models in action
- Hydrodynamic constraints on biological production and human affairs.