Resistance of river ice covers to mobilization and implications for breakup progression in Peace River, Canada
Abstract Prediction and modelling of ice breakup initiation and progress over extended river reaches is largely unattainable at present, despite the ecological and socio‐economic significance of the breakup event and associated ice jams that form in many rivers of Asia, Europe and North America. A k...
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crwiley:10.1002/hyp.14850 2024-06-02T08:12:52+00:00 Resistance of river ice covers to mobilization and implications for breakup progression in Peace River, Canada Beltaos, Spyros Environment and Climate Change Canada 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14850 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hyp.14850 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/hyp.14850 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Hydrological Processes volume 37, issue 3 ISSN 0885-6087 1099-1085 journal-article 2023 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14850 2024-05-06T06:59:47Z Abstract Prediction and modelling of ice breakup initiation and progress over extended river reaches is largely unattainable at present, despite the ecological and socio‐economic significance of the breakup event and associated ice jams that form in many rivers of Asia, Europe and North America. A key question is how to quantify the driving and resisting forces that are applied on the winter ice cover, which control the timing of its dislodgment, mobilization and subsequent jamming locations. Using a physics‐based onset criterion, explicit expressions for these forces are formulated. The more complex of the two is the resistance, which comprises components related to ice strength and thickness, channel curvature, thermal degradation of the ice cover during the pre‐breakup period, and freezeup level (defined as peak 7‐day running average water level during late fall and early winter). This insight is then used in a case study of recent dynamic breakups in a major Canadian river, explaining apparently random differences in the rate of advance of the breakup front among three different years. It is shown further that contradictory results are obtained when the effect of the freezeup level is ignored. Article in Journal/Newspaper Peace River Wiley Online Library Canada Hydrological Processes 37 3 |
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Abstract Prediction and modelling of ice breakup initiation and progress over extended river reaches is largely unattainable at present, despite the ecological and socio‐economic significance of the breakup event and associated ice jams that form in many rivers of Asia, Europe and North America. A key question is how to quantify the driving and resisting forces that are applied on the winter ice cover, which control the timing of its dislodgment, mobilization and subsequent jamming locations. Using a physics‐based onset criterion, explicit expressions for these forces are formulated. The more complex of the two is the resistance, which comprises components related to ice strength and thickness, channel curvature, thermal degradation of the ice cover during the pre‐breakup period, and freezeup level (defined as peak 7‐day running average water level during late fall and early winter). This insight is then used in a case study of recent dynamic breakups in a major Canadian river, explaining apparently random differences in the rate of advance of the breakup front among three different years. It is shown further that contradictory results are obtained when the effect of the freezeup level is ignored. |
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Resistance of river ice covers to mobilization and implications for breakup progression in Peace River, Canada |
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