Macrosystems EDDIE Module 1: Climate Change Effects on Lake Temperatures

Climate change is modifying the thermal structure of lakes around the
globe. Because it is difficult to predict how lakes will respond to
the many different aspects of climate change (e.g., altered
temperature, precipitation, wind, etc.), many researchers are using
models to manipulate climate scenarios and simulate lake responses.
Lake simulation models provide a powerful tool for exploring the
sensitivity of lake thermal structure characteristics to weather. In this module, students will learn how to set up a lake model
(General Lake Model; GLM) and "force" the model with climate
scenarios of their own design to test hypotheses about how lakes may
change in the future. Once students have mastered running one climate
scenario for their lake, they will learn how to use distributed
computing tools to scale up and run hundreds of different climate
scenarios for their lakes. The overarching goal of this module is for students to explore new
modeling and computing tools while learning fundamental concepts about
how climate change will affect lakes. The A-B-C structure of this
module makes it flexible and adaptable to a range of student levels
and course structures. This dataset contains instructional materials and the files necessary
to run the complete module. Readers are referred to the GLM science
manual (Hipsey et al. 2014) for further details on model
configuration.