River Ice Processes and Ice Flood Forecasting: A Guide for Practitioners and Students

ISBN-13: 9783031490873 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 563 str.

Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt

Spis treści

Introduction

-          Flood hazard and risk

-          Flood hazard and risk in the context of ice flooding

Modelling river ice processes

-          Description of the river ice model RIVICE

-          A new user interface has been developed for RIVICE which will be provided with the book.

-          An interface for setting up the model with a given set of riverine cross-sections will also be included.

Riverine freeze-up processes and autumn ice floods -          Theory:

-          Model Application:

-          Spreadsheet Exercises (with step-by-step tutorial videos):

Mid-winter ice-cover breakup floods

-          Theory:

-          Model Application:

-          Spreadsheet Exercise (with step-by-step tutorial videos):

End-of-winter ice-cover breakup processes and floods

-          Theory:

-          Model Application:

-          Spreadsheet Exercise (with step-by-step tutorial videos):

Ice-jam flood hazard assessment and mapping

-          Theory:

-          Model Application:

-          Exercises (with step-by-step tutorial videos):

Ice-jam flood risk mitigation -          Theory:

-          Model Application:

-          Exercises (with step-by-step tutorial videos):

Ice-jam release waves (javes)

-          Theory:

-          Model Applications:

-          Spreadsheet Exercise (with step-by-step tutorial video):

O autorze

Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt is a professor at the University of Saskatchewan.  He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manitoba, a Master of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto, a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin and a Habilitation degree from the Technical University of Cottbus, Germany. Before his appointment at the University of Saskatchewan, Karl was with Manitoba Water Stewardship as a hydrologic modelling research engineer where one of his research topics involved monitoring and modelling river ice processes along the Red, Assiniboine and Dauphin Rivers. 

His knowledge on river ice processes aided Red River Floodway operations, the Ice Jam Mitigation Program along the lower Red River and flood risk management of the Lake St. Martin/Dauphin River system. He has also extended his portfolio of river ice work and research to include the Slave River in the Northwest Territories, the Peace and Athabasca rivers in Alberta, the Saskatchewan (north and south) and Qu’Appelle rivers in Saskatchewan and the Churchill and Exploits rivers in Newfoundland/Labrador. 

Blurb

This book exposes practitioners and decision-makers to the theory and application of river ice processes to gain a better understanding of these processes for modelling and ice flood hazard and risk assessment. It focuses on the following processes of the surface water ice: river freeze-up and flooding, mid-winter ice-cover breakup and flooding and end-of-winter ice-cover breakup and ice jamming. The reader will receive a fundamental understanding of the physical processes of each component and how they are applied in monitoring, modelling and flood hazard/risk assessment of river ice during the entire winter season, from freeze-up to potential mid-winter breakup and concluding with springtime ice-cover breakup and ice-jam flooding. Spreadsheet, geographical information system (GIS) and modelling exercises accompany each component to reinforce the theoretical principles learned. Step-by-step tutorial videos allow the reader to better engage with the book and learn the material faster.