Cenozoic tectonics and sedimentation of the eastern Great Salt Lake area, Utah

1986 ◽  
Vol II (5) ◽  
pp. 777-782
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Wilson ◽  
Luc Saugy ◽  
Matthis A. Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Salt Lake ◽  
Great Salt Lake ◽  
Lake Area ◽  
Cenozoic Tectonics ◽  
Tectonics And Sedimentation

scholarly journals Great Salt Lake–Effect Precipitation: Observed Frequency, Characteristics, and Associated Environmental Factors

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 954-971 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor I. Alcott ◽  
W. James Steenburgh ◽  
Neil F. Laird
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Temperature Difference ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Great Salt Lake ◽  
Threshold Value ◽  
Substantial Improvement ◽  
Lake Area ◽  
Lake Effect ◽  
The Difference

Abstract This climatology examines the environmental factors controlling the frequency, occurrence, and morphology of Great Salt Lake–effect (GSLE) precipitation events using cool season (16 September–15 May) Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) imagery, radiosonde soundings, and MesoWest surface observations from 1997/98 to 2009/10. During this period, the frequency of GSLE events features considerable interannual variability that is more strongly correlated to large-scale circulation changes than lake-area variations. Events are most frequent in fall and spring, with a minimum in January when the climatological lake surface temperature is lowest. Although forecasters commonly use a 16°C lake–700-hPa temperature difference (ΔT) as a threshold for GSLE occurrence, GSLE was found to occur in winter when ΔT was only 12.4°C. Conversely, GSLE is associated with much higher values of ΔT in the fall and spring. Therefore, a seasonally varying threshold based on a quadratic fit to the monthly minimum ΔT values during GSLE events is more appropriate than a single threshold value. A probabilistic forecast method based on the difference between ΔT and this seasonally varying threshold, 850–700-hPa relative humidity, and 700-hPa wind direction offers substantial improvement over existing methods, although forecast skill is diminished by temperature and moisture errors in operational models. An important consideration for forecasting because of their higher precipitation rates, banded features—with a horizontal aspect ratio of 6:1 or greater—dominate only 20% of the time that GSLE is occurring, while widespread, nonbanded precipitation is much more common. Banded periods are associated with stronger low-level winds and a larger lake–land temperature difference.

Hunting Hoppers

1988 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Madsen ◽  
James E. Kirkman
Keyword(s):  
Salt Lake ◽  
Great Salt Lake ◽  
Return Rate ◽  
Lake Area ◽  
Melanoplus Sanguinipes ◽  
Return Rates ◽  
Cave Deposits ◽  
Procurement Strategies ◽  
Optimality Models

Lakeside Cave deposits spanning the last 5,000 years contain evidence of grasshopper (Melanoplus sanguinipes) use. Abundant ethnographic/ethnohistoric data suggest the widespread use of hoppers and other insects. Procurement strategies may be unique to the Great Salt Lake area. During the summer, salted and sun-dried hoppers are washed up on beaches and form windrows up to .2 m× 1.5 m× 15 km Hoppers produce over 3,010 kcal/ kg, and return rates average 272,649 kcal/hour. Digestible proportions have not been determined, but even at a return rate well below the experimental value, optimality models suggest hopper collection should be favored over all other collected resources.

scholarly journals Climatization—Negligent Attribution of Great Salt Lake Desiccation: A Comment on Meng (2019)

Climate ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Wine ◽  
Sarah E. Null ◽  
R. Justin DeRose ◽  
Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh
Keyword(s):  
Water Consumption ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Great Salt Lake ◽  
Irrigated Agriculture ◽  
Lake Area ◽  
Extreme Precipitation Events ◽  
Elevation Changes

A recent article reviewed data on Great Salt Lake (Utah) and concluded falsely that climate changes, especially local warming and extreme precipitation events, are primarily responsible for lake elevation changes. Indeed climatically influenced variation of net inflows contribute to huge swings in the elevation of Great Salt Lake (GSL) and other endorheic lakes. Although droughts and wet cycles have caused lake elevation changes of over 4.5 m, they have not caused a significant long-term change in the GSL stage. This recent article also suggests that a 1.4 °C rise in air temperature and concomitant increase in the lake’s evaporative loss is an important reason for the lake’s decline. However, we calculate that a 1.4 °C rise may have caused only a 0.1 m decrease in lake level. However, since 1847, the lake has declined 3.6 m and the lake area has decreased by ≈50%, despite no significant change in precipitation (p = 0.52) and a slight increase, albeit insignificant, in river flows above irrigation diversions (p = 0.085). In contrast, persistent water extraction for agriculture and other uses beginning in 1847 now decrease water flows below diversions by 39%. Estimates of consumptive water use primarily for irrigated agriculture in the GSL watershed suggest that approximately 85% (2500 km2) of the reduced lake area can be attributed to human water consumption. The recent article’s failure to calculate a water budget for the lake that included extensive water withdrawals misled the author to focus instead on climate change as a causal factor for the decline. Stable stream flows in GSL’s headwaters, inadequate temperature increase to explain the extent of its observed desiccation, stable long-term precipitation, and the magnitude of increased water consumption from GSL together demonstrate conclusively that climatic factors are secondary to human alterations to GSL and its watershed. Climatization, in which primarily non-climatic processes are falsely attributed to climatic factors, is a threat to the credibility of hydrological science. Despite a recent suggestion to the contrary, pressure to support Earth’s rising human population—in the form of increasing consumption of water in water-limited regions, primarily to support irrigated agriculture—remains the leading driver of desiccation of inland waters within Earth’s water-limited regions.

Bibliographic notes on H. Stansbury's Exploration and survey of …/ Expedition to the valley of the Great Salt Lake

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. J. Dorr ◽  
D. H. Nicolson ◽  
L. K. Overstreet
Keyword(s):  
Salt Lake ◽  
Great Salt Lake ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Classic Work ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Multiple Issues ◽  
Title Pages

Howard Stansbury's classic work is bibliographically complex, with two true editions as well as multiple issues of the first edition. The first edition was printed in Philadelphia; its 487 stereotyped pages were issued in 1852 under two different titles with three variant title-pages (an official US government issue and two trade issues). A second edition was printed in Washington in 1853 and had 495 typeset pages (with corrections and additions in the appendices). The issue of 1855 is identical to the 1852 trade issue, except for the change of the date on the title-page. Each issue and edition, with its bindings and plates, is described.

The continued rise of Great Salt Lake, Utah

1985 ◽  
pp. 97-98
Author(s):  
Ted Arnow
Keyword(s):  
Salt Lake ◽  
Great Salt Lake
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