How AI could help predict and explain water levels in the Great Lakes
In January 2013, Lake Michigan reached its lowest water level on record. Seven years later, in the summer of 2020, it broke the opposite record with widespread flooding, eroded shorelines and closed lakeside roads. The difference between the two water levels was nearly two metres. Lakes Superior, Erie and Ontario had the same reversal within a few months of each other. Almost no one saw it coming. These shifts build over months, through a combination of rain, snow, evaporation and human…
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michigan: 44.310, -85.600
canada: 56.130, -106.350
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