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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Daly, Steven F. | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-10-28T21:07:37Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2016-10-28T21:07:37Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11681/20265 | - |
| dc.description.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. | - |
| dc.publisher | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. | - |
| dc.publisher | Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.) | - |
| dc.publisher | Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.) | - |
| dc.relation | http://acwc.sdp.sirsi.net/client/search/asset/1049346 | - |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | ERDC/CRREL ; TR-16-5 | - |
| dc.subject | Ice on rivers, lakes, etc. | - |
| dc.subject | Wind turbines | - |
| dc.subject | Remote sensing | - |
| dc.subject | Meteorology | - |
| dc.subject | Erie, Lake | - |
| dc.title | Characterization of the Lake Erie ice cover | - |
| Appears in Collections: | Technical Report | |
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| ERDC-CRREL TR-16-5.pdf | 5.02 MB | Adobe PDF |  View/Open |