Author(s): V. V. Degtyarev; I. P. Butyagin; V. K. Morgunov
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Abstract: In the USSR, the ice jams of the greatest depth are formed on the Siberian rivers flowing in meridional direction to the north and breaking up from the head river towards the mouth. It is this fact that differs them from the most of the rivers in the European part of the country which, as a rule, flow from the north to the south and in spring are broken up comparatively quietly starting from the lower river towards the upper ones. The rivers Northern Dvina, Dnestr and some others, which are also characterized by great ice jams under breakup, are an exception. As everywhere else, ice jams on the Siberian rivers essentially depend on ice drift conditions and patterns under freeze-up and break-up.
Year: 1975