Future rise of the Great Lakes water levels under climate change

MB Kayastha, X Ye, C Huang, P Xue - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Great Lakes of North America are the largest unfrozen surface freshwater
system in the world and many ecosystems, industries, and coastal processes are sensitive to …

Rapid lake Michigan shoreline changes revealed by UAV LiDAR surveys

CD Troy, YT Cheng, YC Lin, A Habib - Coastal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The recent record-breaking Laurentian Great Lakes water levels have led to severe erosion
along many shorelines, but quantification of this erosion has not yet been widely reported. In …

Effect of Three Gorges Dam on Poyang Lake water level at daily scale based on machine learning

S Huang, J Xia, S Zeng, Y Wang, D She - Journal of Geographical …, 2021 - Springer
Lake water level is an essential indicator of environmental changes caused by natural and
human factors. The water level of Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, has …

Rapid water level rise drives unprecedented coastal habitat loss along the Great Lakes of North America

EJ Theuerkauf, KN Braun - Journal of Great Lakes Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Lake Michigan rose to record high water levels in the 2010s; during this time, some coastal
sites experienced habitat loss rates an order of magnitude higher than during previous high …

A reduced-complexity shoreline model for coastal areas with large water level fluctuations

HU Abdelhady, CD Troy - Coastal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract A new reduced-complexity, 1-D shoreline model has been developed, calibrated,
and tested with a set of shoreline positions detected from high-resolution satellite images …

[HTML][HTML] Lake-bottom geology of the Chicago nearshore: A sand-distribution context for urban beach morphodynamics along a fragmented littoral zone

CR Mattheus, ME Barklage - Journal of Great Lakes Research, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper reports on a high-resolution, regional sand assessment of the Chicago littoral
zone, undertaken within∼ 3 km from shore, to facilitate an improved process-based …

Seasonality in cold coast bluff erosion processes

CJ Roland, LK Zoet, JE Rawling III, M Cardiff - Geomorphology, 2021 - Elsevier
High water levels in the Laurentian Great Lakes are causing widespread erosion of
unlithified coastal bluffs and damaging infrastructure. Measurements of bluff recession along …

Three-dimensional bluff evolution in response to seasonal fluctuations in Great Lakes water levels

CA Volpano, LK Zoet, JE Rawling III… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Effects of lake level fluctuations on coastal bluff erosion in the Great Lakes are
pervasive and of significant concern to policy-makers and property owners. Previous studies …

Patterns and processes of beach and foredune geomorphic change along a Great Lakes shoreline: Insights from a year-long drone mapping study along Lake …

E Theuerkauf, CR Mattheus, K Braun, J Bueno - Shore & Beach, 2021 - par.nsf.gov
Coastal storms are an important driver of geomorphic change along Great Lakes shorelines.
While there is abundant anecdotal evidence for storm impacts in the region, only a handful …

Potential for shoreline recession to accelerate discharge of groundwater pollutants to coastal waters

S Rakhimbekova, C Power… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Discharge of groundwater‐derived pollutants to inland and marine coastal waters is
influenced by the transport and reactive processes occurring in nearshore aquifers. The …