TUNNEL COOLING FOR BYRD STATION, ANTARCTICA-1969 PROGRESS REVIEW.

• Main Author: Hoffman,Clark R.
• Other Authors: NAVAL CIVIL ENGINEERING LAB PORT HUENEME CALIF
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: Air Condition; Heating; Lighting & Ventilating; Structural Engineering and Building Technology; (*NAVAL SHORE FACILITIES; ANTARCTIC REGIONS); (*COOLING + VENTILATING EQUIPMENT; PERFORMANCE(ENGINEERING)); (*STRUCTURES; COOLING); TEMPERATURE CONTROL; HEAT SINKS; PERIODIC VARIATIONS; DEFORMATION; BUCKLING; INSTRUMENTATION; BYRD STATION(ANTARCTICA); UNDERSNOW CAMPS; Antarctic; Byrd; Byrd Station; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice cap
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0700938; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0700938

Byrd Station is located in snow tunnels more than 20 feet below the surface of the antarctic continental ice cap. The accumulation of heat lost from the buildings and other facilities in the tunnels and summer surface air temperatures to plus 25F necessitates supplementary air cooling, to maintain t...