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- — January 13, 2014
Upsides to Great Lakes Ice Cover

The Great Lakes saw rapid and thick ice formation during the recent cold plunge. The basin as a whole is seeing its highest levels of ice cover in 20 years.[…]

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- — January 10, 2014
Right Conditions Needed for Frozen Lake Michigan Lighthouses

Frozen lighthouses near Lake Michigan are getting a lot of buzz lately. On sites like Twitter and Facebook, photos of lighthouses at St. Joseph and South Haven have gone viral.[…]

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- — December 19, 2013
New Algorithm Improves Great Lakes Ice Mapping

Mapping ice cover on the Great Lakes is difficult, often held back by limitations of optical sensors on satellites. The instruments experience issues penetrating darkness and cloud cover, can’t determine[…]

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- — April 23, 2012
Greenland ice sheet slipping away due to lake drainage

Surface lake drainage on the Greenland ice sheet could cause it to slip into the ocean more quickly, according to a recent study by researchers from the University of Colorado[…]

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