Lake Michigan in Motion.Lake Michigan In Motion Clifford H. Mortimer University of Wisconsin Press The University of Wisconsin Press (or UW Press), founded in 1936, is a university press that is part of the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States. It published under its own name and the imprint The Popular Press. 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd floor, Madison, WI 53711-2059 www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress 029917834X $24.95 1-800-621-2736 Written by expert limnologist lim·nol·o·gy n. The scientific study of the life and phenomena of fresh water, especially lakes and ponds. [Greek limn and former director of the Center for Great Lakes Great Lakes, group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, creating a natural border between the United States and Canada and forming the largest body of freshwater in the world, with a combined surface area of c.95,000 sq mi (246,050 sq km). Studies Clifford Mortimer, Lake Michigan In Motion: Responses Of An Inland Sea Inland Sea, Jap. Seto-naikai, arm of the Pacific Ocean, c.3,670 sq mi (9,510 sq km), S Japan, between Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu islands. It is linked to the Sea of Japan by a narrow channel. To Weather, Earth-Spin, And Human Activities is a detailed, scholarly, and scientific examination of Lake Michigan. Black-and-white photographs, charts, and diagrams illustrate chapters covering the history of scientific inquiry into Lake Michigan's physicality, water levels and flows, seasonal cycles of heating/cooling and layering/mixing, lake currents, categories and models of waves, models in action, and much more. A background in basic calculus and environmental physics is presumed in this scrutiny of how multiple factors fro glaciers, wind, and weather to human public policy and polition have and continue to influence Lake Michigan. A superb resource for college libraries and Great Lakes Region The Great Lakes region can refer to:
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