Table 3.
Thermal metric | Time period | Median slope | 25th percentile | 75th percentile | n lakes | % lakes increasing | % lakes decreasing |
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Surface water temperature (°C decade−1) | 1970–2009 | 0.37* | 0.23 | 0.56 | 30 | 90% | 7% |
1990–2009 | 0.33* | − 0.12 | 0.78 | 99 | 69% | 29% | |
Deepwater temperature (°C decade−1) | 1970–2009 | 0.06 | − 0.01 | 0.21 | 30 | 63% | 27% |
1990–2009 | − 0.05 | − 0.31 | 0.20 | 97 | 38% | 54% | |
Mean water column temperature (°C decade−1) | 1970–2009 | 0.19* | 0.09 | 0.30 | 30 | 87% | 13% |
1990–2009 | 0.05 | − 0.22 | 0.27 | 97 | 54% | 46% | |
Density difference (kg m−3 decade−1) | 1970–2009 | 0.08* | 0.03 | 0.12 | 30 | 87% | 13% |
1990–2009 | 0.06* | − 0.02 | 0.18 | 97 | 69% | 31% | |
Thermocline depth (m decade−1) | 1970–2009 | 0.03* | 0.00 | 1.22 | 28 | 79% | 18% |
1990–2009 | 0.00 | − 0.20 | 0.28 | 92 | 40% | 47% |
Summaries were based on Sen’s slopes from each individual lake. Asterisks indicate overall significant change across all lakes (1-sample Wilcoxon rank sum tests, p < 0.05). Percent of lakes increasing and decreasing represents all lakes, and does not necessarily add up to 100% due to a small percentage of lakes with a Sen’s slope of zero.