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Overview Seasonal forecasting Final thoughts Forecasting Great Lakes Water Levels Across Multiple Time Scales Andrew Gronewold, Ph.D., P .E. drewgron@umich.edu University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences June 2020 1 / 7

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Surface water elev. (m, IGLD85) 178 Fort Gratiot (Lake Huron) 176 174 Buffalo (Lake Erie) Hurricane Sandy 172 4 Surface water elev. (m, MSL) 3 The Battery (New York) 2 1 0 −1 −2 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 October 2012 November 2012

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Overview Seasonal forecasting Final thoughts Forecasting Great Lakes Water Levels Across Multiple Time Scales Andrew Gronewold, Ph.D., P .E. drewgron@umich.edu University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences June 2020 7 / 7