Flow-Control Systems Proof of Concept for Snowmelt Runoff at McMurdo Station, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Affleck,Rosa T, Tischbein,Bruce, Arbogast,Jude
• Other Authors: U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Hanover United States
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Geography; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; drainage basins; cold regions; control systems; hypervelocity flow; engineering; air temperature; geotextiles; Soil erosion; EPOLAR(Engineering for Polar Operations Logistics and Research); Flow control; McMurdo Station (Antarctica); NSF(national science foundation); Sediment pond; Settling basins; Snowmelt runoff; Austral; McMurdo Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD1026064; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD1026064

The snowmelt runoff during the austral summer at McMurdo Station is diurnally and seasonally variable. The variability is caused by a dynamic process in which the flow fluctuates daily and seasonally in response to solar and temperature input, melting the snow and glacier ice in the watershed. The c...