2023-May-05
GBA Retracts UPDATE Article: The Future of Water Levels
GBA has retracted the recent article on the cover page of the spring 2023 issue of UPDATE (volume 33, issue 1) entitled “The Future of Water Levels”. It has come to our attention that the UPDATE article exaggerated the potential ranges of the extreme future water levels published by Environment and Climate Change Canada¹. This resulted in an overstatement of the potential ranges of extreme future water levels. We deeply regret these errors and are taking steps to correct them.
As a matter of public record, and in accordance with the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE)
practice, the article will remain online, but will be digitally watermarked as “retracted” on each page.
The revised issue of UPDATE can be found here.
¹ Environment and Climate Change Canada. Future hydroclimate variables and lake levels for the Great
Lakes using data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5. Gatineau, QC: Government
of Canada; 2022. 83 p