River Ice Processes and Ice Flood Forecasting A Guide for Practition
This book exposes practitioners and students to the theory and application of river and lake ice processes to gain a better understanding of these processes for modelling and forecasting. It focuses on the following processes of the surface water ice: fre
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River Ice Processes and Ice Flood Forecasting A Guide for Practitioners and Students
River Ice Processes and Ice Flood Forecasting
Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt
River Ice Processes and Ice Flood Forecasting A Guide for Practitioners and Students
Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt Global Institute for Water Security University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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Preface
I was first introduced to river ice as a science and engineering discipline when I started working as a hydrological research engineer in the Surface Water Section at Manitoba Water Stewardship in March 2009. I was on a team responsible for operating the Red River Floodway, which diverts floodwater from the Red River around Winnipeg to reduce flood hazard and risk in that city. The spring of 2009 was a particularly difficult year for hydraulic forecasting and floodway operations because ice covers on the Red River remained intact well into the breakup season, with the ice retaining its structural competency and strength for an unusually prolonged period of time. This resulted in severe mechanical breakup of the ice covers when they finally did break up causing many ice jams along the river leading to increased flood hazard. The floodway was not usually operated until the ice had cleared out of the Red River in Winnipeg, but, in that spring of 2009, operations needed to be initiated while the ice cover was still present in the river. After the breakup had passed, the Government of Manitoba decided to invest additional resources and personnel dedicated
