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https://hdl.handle.net/11681/20265| Title: | Characterization of the Lake Erie ice cover |
| Authors: | Daly, Steven F. |
| Keywords: | Ice on rivers, lakes, etc. Wind turbines Remote sensing Meteorology Erie, Lake |
| Publisher: | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.) |
| Series/Report no.: | ERDC/CRREL ; TR-16-5 |
| Abstract: | Abstract: The developing offshore wind energy industry in Northern Ohio is looking to place wind turbines in Lake Erie. The floating lake ice that forms in Lake Erie each winter is a very important consideration for the design of the wind-turbine towers and for the foundations sited in the lake. This report uses historical meteorological and surface-ice thickness observations, 41 years of ice chart information, and lake-bed surveys of ice scours to estimate the characteristics of the Lake Erie ice cover important to the design of offshore wind-turbine towers. These characteristics include the expected thickness of the ice cover due to thermal growth, the historical spatial and temporal distribution of the ice cover throughout the winter season; and the estimated consolidated layer thickness and maximum keel depths of ice ridges formed in the lake. The report also describes the results of an innovative satellite-based synthetic aperture radar survey that included multi-temporal acquisitions of the lake ice cover during the winter of 2014–15. A stationary linear feature was evident in a time series of three spatially overlapping images, suggesting a grounded ice ridge. At that time of this publication, this is the first satellite-based evidence of ice ridges in Lake Erie. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11681/20265 |
| Appears in Collections: | Technical Report |
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| ERDC-CRREL TR-16-5.pdf | 5.02 MB | Adobe PDF |  View/Open |