BREAKUP

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An exhibition of widley understood photography by three Poland born London based artists: Renata Kaminska, Jolanta Reis, Maciej Urbanek `As a first step toward development of more general, transferable, breakup forecasting criteria, five data sets are used to test existing theoretical concepts of how breakup is initiated. One of these concepts results in acceptable consistency among the different sites, and shows promise for further testing. It involves such variables as water surface width, channel curvature, freeze-up stage, and ice competence. In addition to forecasting applications at a particular site, this method has the potential for application over entire reaches to address such problems as where ice jams form, when they release, and the magnitude of the ice clearing discharge.` (S. Beltaos Onset of river ice breakup, Cold Regions Science and Technology, Volume 25, Issue 3, April 1997, Pages 183-196 )