Recommended Practice for Combatting Ice Jams

• Main Author: Sinotin,V. I.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1973
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; (*Ice prevention; Rivers); Floods; Damage; Control; Icebreakers; Explosives; Chemicals; Dams; Thermal properties; Forecasting; Translations; USSR; Ice jams; Ice breakup; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0769723; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0769723

Contents: Field observations of ice jams and data analysis; Artificial weakening of ice; Mechanical destruction of ice; Artificial ice jams and straightening of channels; Using airplanes to prevent and destroy ice jams; Prevention and destruction of ice jams with explosives; Passage of ice through hydraulic structures during construction and use of hydroelectric stations without ice jam formation; Hydraulic and thermal regulation of water bodies and currents to prevent and combat ice jams. Draft trans. of mono. Metodicheskie Ukazaniya po Borbe s Zatorami i Zazhorami l'da, Leningrad, 1970 p1-151.