Lake Superior temperatures, currents and weather documented by new UMD buoy
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Steve Kuchera | Source: Duluth News Tribune
Perhaps as early as today, a new buoy will appear on Lake Superior off of Duluth.
The 10-foot-tall buoy — painted yellow, sporting solar panels and crowned with amber light — doesn’t mark a navigational lane or an underwater hazard. It is part of a scientific project to gather information on the lake’s weather, temperature and currents in greater detail than ever before.
The buoy is one of three sets of instruments the research vessel Blue Heron is placing across the lake in the coming days.
“We’re trying to better understand how the lake is responding to changes in the environment, partially with respect to global warming,” Large Lakes Observatory Director Steven M. Colman said. “We’ve seen it respond in some unexpected ways.”
Read about the new buoy and submerged sensors being set, at the Duluth News Tribune >>
