Acknowledgments
We thank the Coordinating Committee on Great Lakes Basic Hydraulic Hydrologic Data for generously curating Great Lake level data for public use, as well as the NOAA Great Lakes Research Environmental Laboratory for graciously providing openly accessible monthly hydrometeorological observational data and output from the Large Lake Statistical Water Balance Model (L2SWBM). We also express our gratitude for the Ubben Program for Carbon and Climate Science at Northwestern University for providing assistance for this work through a postdoctoral fellowship to Ryan D. Harp. We thank the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program for supporting Daniel T. Blanco through NSF grant AST-1757792 awarded to CIERA at Northwestern University. We finally acknowledge support for Ashish Sharma and Donald J. Wuebbles from NSF grants 2139316 and 2230772 and support for Daniel E. Horton from NSF grant CBET-1848683.