Author(s): Samuel S. Lazier; Michel Metge
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Abstract: In order to acquire a better knowledge of static ice forces, the authors developed a finite difference method for calculating temperature gradients in an ice cover. This method was checked against Taylor's (1945) analytical solution and it proved to be precise and simple. Measurements of ice temperatures were carried out during the winter 1969 in Kingston harbour. These experiments showed that the gradients predicted with given ice surface temperatures were fairly close to those measured, and also that there is a fundamental difference between the changes in temperature gradients due to solar radiation and those due to changes in air temperature only.
Year: 1970