The lake ice response to eventual climate warming would appear as a shortening of the ice season due to the increasing air temperature and also as changing of the quality of the ice seasons via changes in ice thickness and structure. The book gives the whole story of lake ice into a single volume.
Introduction.- Freezing of lakes.- Structure and properties of lake ice.- Thermodynamics of Seasonal lake ice.- Mechanics of lake ice.- Proglacial lakes.- Lake Water Body in the Ice Season.- Ice-Covered Lakes Environment.- Lake ice Climatology.- Future of frozen lakes.- Annex: Ice Properties and Useful Formulae.- References.- Index.