Maintenance and Drainage Guidance for the Scott Base Transition, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Shoop, Sally, Hills, John, Uberuaga, Julia
• Other Authors: ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER HANOVER NH COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Civil Engineering; Surface Transportation and Equipment; *ANTARCTIC REGIONS; *DRAINAGE; *LAND ICE; *ROADS; *SNOW; AGGREGATES(MATERIALS); AIR TRAFFIC; BASE LINES; CONSTRUCTION; GUIDANCE; ICE; ISLANDS; LAND AREAS; MAINTENANCE; MATERIALS; MELTING; MOTION; PERSONNEL; REPAIR; SOILS; STATIONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; TOPOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC; TRANSITIONS; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLES; ICE SHELF; SCOTT BASE TRANSITION(ANTARCTICA); Antarctic; Austral; McMurdo Station; Ross Island; Scott Base; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice; Ice Shelf; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA610788; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA610788

The snow roads at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, are the primary transportation corridors for moving personnel and material to and from the airfields servicing intra- and intercontinental air traffic. The majority of the road system is made of snow overlying a snow and ice subsurface. However, at the...