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This chapter illustrates many techniques used to monitor the ice cover during the winter season, which are necessary to determine important characteristics of the ice cover. Such information is useful when making predictions concerning ice-cover breakup and ice-jamming potential at the end of the winter season. Characteristics such as ice type, ice thickness and the amount of snow on the ice cover, among others, should be monitored throughout the winter season. The chapter first discusses tools that are available for monitoring ice covers and includes sections with simple spreadsheet exercises that can be implemented to make predictions of ice thicknesses.
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Lindenschmidt, KE. (2020). Ice-Cover Monitoring. In: River Ice Processes and Ice Flood Forecasting. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28679-8_3
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