Response of Northern Hemisphere lake‐ice cover and lake‐water thermal structure patterns to a changing climate

Abstract The formation and break‐up of ice‐cover are important seasonal events in mid‐ to high‐latitude cold‐region lakes. There is increasing concern regarding how climate change will affect lake‐water thermal structure and lake‐ice characteristics, particularly ice formation, duration, break‐up, thickness, and composition. This study employs a one‐dimensional process‐based multi‐year lake ice model, MyLake, to simulate the evolution of the …