The Symposium on Ice is an event that has been taking place every two years since 1970. It brings together the ice engineering communities from countries around the world that have to contend with cold waters. The challenges that are discussed span a wide spectrum of applications – from risks presented by icebergs to ships and offshore installations and the extent of sea ice in Arctic regions for navigation purposes, to flooding due to ice jams and challenges posed by underwater ice to water intakes along densely populated shorelines, issues of an environmental nature and climate impacts. These proceedings contain the papers of the 26th IAHR International Symposium on Ice, which was held during June 19-23, 2022 in Montréal, Canada at the École de Technologie Supérieure.

Committees

The Symposium was organized by the Committee on River Ice Processes and the Environment (CRIPE) in collaboration with the Ocean, Coastal and River Engineering (OCRE) Research Centre at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). This was done in coordination with the Secreteriat of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) as well as its Technical Committee on Ice Research and Engineering (CIRE).

Revision process

The revision process was jointly coordinated by CRIPE and OCRE, with the involvement of CIRE. The initial step was a ‘Call for Abstracts’ describing the topics of interest to the Symposium – about 130 entries were received by the Scientific Committee (SC), which was composed of 11 ice experts in Canada. About 120 submitters were invited to produce a full paper; in order to do so, they were provided with guidelines. The manuscripts were returned to the SC. Each manuscript was then sent out to three experts from various universities, governmental institutions and the private sector in North America, Europe and Asia. The SC confirmed each review, and/or commented further, before returning it to the author(s) to produce a final (amended) version. This process led to the presentation and inclusion of 76 papers in the proceedings.

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The Proceedings of the 26th IAHR International Symposium on Ice has been published under the IAHR Publications Ethics and Malpractice Statement.

Previous editions

Proceedings of the 25th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Trondheim, 2020)

Proceedings of the 24th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Vladivostok 2018)

Proceedings of the 23rd IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Michigan, 2016)

Proceedings of the 22nd IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Singapore, 2014)

Proceedings of the 21st IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Dalian 2012)

Proceedings of the 20th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Lahti, 2010)

Proceedings of the 19th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Vancouver 2008)

Proceedings of the 18th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Sapporo 2006)

Proceedings of the 17th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (St. Petersburg 2004)

Proceedings of the 16th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Dunedin, 2002)

Proceedings of the 15th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Gdansk 2000)

Proceedings of the 14th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Potsdam 1998)

Proceedings of the 13th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Beijing 1996)

Proceedings of the 12th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Trondheim 1994)

Proceedings of the 11th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Banff 1992)

Proceedings of the 10th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Espoo 1990)

Proceedings of the 9th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Sapporo 1988)

Proceedings of the 8th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Iowa 1986)

Proceedings of the 7th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Hamburg 1984)

Proceedings of the 6th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (Quebec City 1981)

Proceedings of the 5th IAHR International Symposium on Ice Problems (Lulea 1978)

Proceedings of the 3rd IAHR International Symposium on Ice Problems (Hanover 1975)

Proceedings of the IAHR-PIANC Symposium on River and Ice (Budapest 1974)

Proceedings of the 2nd IAHR Symposium on Ice and its Action on Hydraulic Structures (Leningrad 1972)

Proceedings of the 1st IAHR Symposium on Ice and its Action on Hydraulic Structures (Reykjavik 1970)