Climate Change Impacts Documents

2023 Annual Climate Trends and Impacts Summary for the Great Lakes Basin

The 2023 Annual Climate Trends and Impacts Summary for the Great Lakes Basin, led by Environment and Climate Change Canada and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a partnership of climate services organizations in the U.S. and Canada, provides an overview of the climate trends and impacts in the basin for the year, […]

Posted: December 6, 2024

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region – June 2024

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment and Climate Change Canada, summarizing the latest season’s weather and water level conditions and weather and water level-related impacts over the Great Lakes and provides an outlook for the upcoming quarter. It is published […]

Posted: December 5, 2024

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region – March 2024

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment and Climate Change Canada, summarizing the latest season’s weather and water level conditions and weather and water level-related impacts over the Great Lakes and provides an outlook for the upcoming quarter. […]

Posted: December 5, 2024

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region – December 2023

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment and Climate Change Canada, summarizing the latest season’s weather and water level conditions and weather and water level-related impacts over the Great Lakes and provides an outlook for the upcoming quarter. […]

Posted: December 5, 2024

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region – September 2023

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment and Climate Change Canada, summarizing the latest season’s weather and water level conditions and weather and water level-related impacts over the Great Lakes and provides an outlook for the upcoming quarter. […]

Posted: December 5, 2024

2022 Annual Climate Trends and Impacts Summary for the Great Lakes Basin

The 2022 Annual Climate Trends and Impacts Summary for the Great Lakes Basin, led by Environment and Climate Change Canada and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a partnership of climate services organizations in the U.S. and Canada, provides an overview of the climate trends and impacts in the basin for the year, […]

Posted: August 1, 2024

Climate Change in the Great Lakes Basin: Summary of Trends and Impacts

With an accompanying infographic and video, the Climate Change in the Great Lakes Basin: Summary of Trends and Impacts characterizes historical and future climate trends within the Great Lakes basin and summarizes the climate change impacts experienced across the Great Lakes basin. The report aims to further the understanding of climate change impacts in the […]

Posted: November 7, 2022

Approaches for Conducting Vulnerability Assessments in the Great Lakes Basin: A Review of the Literature

This report provides an overview of assessments that have been conducted in the Great Lakes Basin to determine the vulnerability of natural ecosystems to the impacts of climate change. The purpose of the report is to inform the development and implementation of vulnerability assessments by members of the Great Lakes research community, resource managers, practitioners […]

Posted: November 1, 2018

State of Climate Change Science in the Great Lakes Basin

In December 2015, a “State of Climate Change Science in the Great Lakes Basin: A Focus on Climatological, Hydrologic and Ecological Effects” report was released, which synthesizes the state of climate change impacts in the Great Lakes Basin. The report, and companion database of all the literature reviewed for the report, were developed by the Ontario […]

Posted: September 15, 2016