Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2017-725 Manuscript under review for journal Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discussion started: 10 January 2018 c Author(s) 2018. CC BY 4.0 License. Evaluating and improving modeled turbulent heat fluxes across the North American Great Lakes Umarporn Charusombat1, Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome2,3, Andrew D. Gronewold1, Brent M. 5 Lofgren1, Eric J. Anderson1, Peter D. Blanken4, Christopher Spence5, John D. Lenters6, Chuliang Xiao2 Lindsay E. Fitzpatrick2, and Gregory Cutrell7 1NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48108 USA 10 2University of Michigan, Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48108, USA 3University of Michigan, Climate & Space Sciences and Engineering Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, USA 4University of Colorado, Department of Geography, Boulder, Colorado, 80309, USA 15 5Environment and Climate Change Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5C5, Canada 6University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Limnology, Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, 54512, USA 7LimnoTech, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48108 20 Correspondence to: Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome (
[email protected]) 25 1 Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2017-725 Manuscript under review for journal Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discussion started: 10 January 2018 c Author(s) 2018. CC BY 4.0 License. Abstract Turbulent fluxes of latent and sensible heat are important physical processes that influence the energy and water budgets of the North American Great Lakes. Validation and improvement of bulk flux algorithms to simulate these turbulent heat fluxes are critical for accurate prediction of lake hydrodynamics, water levels, weather, and climate over the region.