River Ice Processes and Ice Flood Forecasting

Chapter 1: Introduction Red River Dauphin River

Chapter 2: Ice physics & mechanics physical properties of ice creep and fracture of ice

Chapter 3: Freeze-up processes Freeze-up processes Impacts of flow regulation on river freeze-up

Chapter 4: Exercise - river cooling and ice cover extent 0 °C isotherm ice cover length

Chapter 5: Monitoring ice covers tracking ice cover characteristics ice strength and ice maps

Chapter 6: Exercise - characterising river ice types processing remote sensing data extracting ice types from satellite imagery

Chapter 7: Breakup & ice jam processes tracking breakup along Peace and Slave rivers impacts of flow regulation on ice cover breakup

Chapter 8: Exercise - equilibrium ice jams & javes equilibrium ice jam staging surge velocity and staging of ice jam release waves

Chapter 9: Ice jam flood risk assessment and mapping flood risk= hazard vulnerability ice jam flood risk assessment and mapping of the town of Peace River

Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt is an associate 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 South Saskatchewan and Qu'Appelle rivers in Saskatchewan and the Churchill and Exploits rivers in Newfoundland/Labrador.