The Prediction of Great Salt Lake Levels on the Basis of Recent Solar - Climatic Cycles

Abstract

The major glacial-interglacial cycles are considered very briefly as to probable cause and the implications of such cause as to their future trend and its effect on the future levels of Great Salt Lake. The recent solar-climatic cycles since the 14th century, and in more detail since the Maunder Sunspot minimum, are considered from the point of view of their predicted extrapolation into the decades and the centuries immediately ahead of us. Fluctuations of level of three terminal lakes, Great Salt Lake, Utah; Devils Lake, North Dakota; and, very spottily, the Caspian Sea, are examined from the point of view of their relationship to the solar climatic cycles. These relationships are applied accordingly to the prediction of Great Salt Lake water levels for the decades and centuries immediately ahead.