John D. Lenters
Contact
- jdlenter@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3197
- GLRC 305
- Associate Research Scientist, Great Lakes Research Center
- Adjunct Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
- Adjunct Professor, Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics
Areas of Expertise
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- Lake evaporation
- Physical limnology
- Great Lakes weather and climate
- Surface waves and coastal storms
- Air-sea interaction
- Autonomous buoys
- Watershed hydrology
- Global and regional climate change
Research Interests
- Impacts of climate on lake temperature and ice cover
- Lake surface energy balance studies
- Marine weather observations and forecasting
- Great Lakes evaporation and water levels
- Climate impacts on lake and land surface hydrology
- Mesoscale and boundary layer meteorology
- Great Lakes observation networks
- Societal impacts of climate change
- Autonomous sensors at the lake-air interface