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NASA study confirms warmer Tahoe water temps

Posted by: Maven on January 1, 2010 at 8:33 am

lake tahoe by the tahoe guyFrom the Tahoe Daily Tribune:

“SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — A recent NASA study showed Lake Tahoe’s water is warming twice as quickly as regional air temperature, lending weight to predictions of warming lake temperatures made by UC Davis researchers in 2008.

The study, published in November, shows from 1992 to 2008, Tahoe’s surface waters warmed a mean .23 degrees Fahrenheit a year from 1992 to 2008 — a 3.7 degree raise in total. Air temperatures recorded in Tahoe City increased .1 degrees annually during the same time period.

Researchers from the Tahoe Environmental Research Center, UC Davis and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used 18 years of temperature data from satellite sensors. They studied Tahoe, Clear Lake, Lake Almanor and Mono Lake in California and Pyramid and Walker Lake in Nevada.

“This isn’t just Tahoe — other lakes in the region experiencing similar rates of warming,” said TERC Director Geoffrey Schladow. … “

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Picture of Lake Tahoe by flickr photographer The Tahoe Guy (Creative Commons).

January 1, 2010 · Filed Under Lake Tahoe, the Sierras & foothills

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