As part of the ICEREG project dedicated to analysis of ice‑jam floods, the project Final Conference was held on 21 January in Riga at the Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa Daugava. The event brought together 47 participants in person and 14 online. Representatives of the project partner institutions, Latvian Ministry of Climate and Energy, Lithuanian Ministry of Environment, municipalities, the State Environmental Service, the State Fire and Rescue Service, as well as interested participants from the Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies attended the event.
photo: Emīls Rubīns
During the conference, information was presented on the most significant ice‑jam floods in Latvia and Lithuania, as well as the project results:
- analysis of historical ice‑jam data;
- assessment of climate change impacts on ice phenomena and river runoff;
- conceptual model of the formation of ice‑jam‑related floods;
- enhancement of early warning systems with information about ice‑jam floods;
- flood‑risk and flood‑hazard maps for the project’s pilot territories; and a list of measures for reducing flood risk.
Information was also presented about the ICEWATCH project on river ice satellite data that is currently being implemented by LEGMC.
The ICEREG project results are now available:
- Project deliverable documents are published in the project section on LEGMC web site (see header “Projekta rezultāti”).
- Ice-jam flood maps developed for the pilot territories in Latvia are available on LEGMC web site (in the layer selection pane on the right, select “ICEREG projekta rezultātā izstrādātās ledus plūdu riska kartes”).
- Ice-jam flood maps for the pilot territories in Lithuania are available on LHMS web site.
- The conceptual model of the ice-jam flood formation has been used to update the Warning Systems of Latvia and Lithuania.
