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Response of Lake Tahoe to Climate Change
November 11, 2012 | USGS

“Meteorology is the driving force for lake internal heating, cooling, mixing, and circulation. Thus continued global warming will affect the lake thermal properties, water level, internal nutrient loading, nutrient cycling, food-web characteristics, fish-habitat, aquatic ecosystem, and other important features of lake limnology.” Quoted from the USGS press release.


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