Ice Influences on Channel Stability: Insights from Missouri’s Fort Peck Reach
Publication: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 130, Issue 4
Abstract
This paper presents insights from a comprehensive study of river ice influences on alluvial-channel bathymetry and stability. The study entailed unique wintertime fieldwork along the Fort Peck reach of the Missouri River. The insights show how ice formation, presence, and breakup can influence channel stability in several important ways, especially when channels must convey substantial water flow during winter. Ice may hasten the migration of channel bends, cause transient scour and sediment deposition during winter, and induce cyclic shifts of flow thalweg through sinuous-braided subreaches. The insights are of direct significance for engineering activities along the Missouri’s Fort Peck reach and other alluvial channels subject to frigid winters. They also are significant for understanding the frigid-winter habitat of aquatic life in such channels.
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Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 130 • Issue 4 • April 2004
Pages: 279 - 292
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Received: May 23, 2003
Accepted: Aug 11, 2003
Published online: Mar 15, 2004
Published in print: Apr 2004
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