This book updates the first
edition for the status of knowledge in
the physics of lake ice and the
interactions between the ice cover and
the liquid water underneath. Since the
first edition was written in 2013,
there has been a lot of progress in
the field, in particular concerning
environmental questions and the impact
of climate change. Life conditions in
ice-covered lakes and practical
matters are now brought more into the
picture so that the revision also
properly serves as a handbook for
applications. The author has worked
widely with boreal lakes, polar lakes
and Central Asian lakes that provides
a wide geographical spectrum.
Chapter 1 gives a brief overview
and presents the research fields. The
second chapter contains the
classification of ice-covered lakes
and observation techniques, especially
remote sensing. In Chapter 3, the
structure and properties of lake ice
are presented including optics and
geochemistry. Ice growth and melting
are treated in Chapter 4, while the
following chapter focuses on ice
mechanics with applications to traffic
on ice and ice loads. Chapter 6 goes
into the exotic environment of
pro-glacial lakes. Chapter 7 contains
the stratification and circulation of
the water body beneath lake ice,
Chapter 8 presents the winter ecology
of freezing lakes and discusses the
lake ice interface toward the society,
and Chapter 9 summarizes the climate
change impact on lake ice seasons. The
book ends into a brief closing chapter
and list of references. Research
problems for student learning are
listed throughout the book. Annexes
are included to provide numerical data
of constants and standard formulae to
help practical calculations and
student tasks.
Lake ice closely interacts with
human living conditions, but people have
learnt to live with that and to utilize
the ice. In the present time this is
true for on-ice traffic and recreation
activities. Ice fishing has become a
widely enjoyed hobby, and winter sports
such as skiing, skating, and ice sailing
are popular activities on frozen lakes.
The lake ice response to eventual
climate warming would appear as a
shortening of the ice season due to the
increasing air temperature and also as
changing of the quality of the ice
seasons via changes in ice thickness and
structure.
The book gives the whole story of
lake ice into a single volume. The
second, revised edition updates the
content based on recent progress in
winter limnology and ice physics
research and applications. The author
has contributed to lake ice research
since the 1980s. In particular, his
topics have been lake ice structure and
thermodynamics, light transfer in ice
and snow, ice mechanics in large lakes,
and lake ice climatology. Mathematical
modeling of ice growth, drift, and decay
are covered in this research.
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