Pegasus Airfield Repair and Protection: Laboratory Trials of White Ice Paint to Improve the Energy Reflectance Properties of the Glacial-Ice Runway Surface

• Main Author: Weale, Jason C
• Other Authors: ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER HANOVER NH COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Terminal Flight Facilities; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Coatings; Colorants and Finishes; Optics; *ICE; *LANDING FIELDS; *PAINTS; *REFLECTANCE; *REPAIR; *RUNWAYS; INFRARED SPECTRA; PROTECTION; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTRORADIOMETERS; ENERGY REFLECTANCE; EPOLAR(ENGINEERING FOR POLAR OPERATIONS LOGISTICS AND RESEARCH); GLACIAL ICE ALBEDOS; GLACIAL ICE REFLECTANCE; GLACIAL ICE RUNWAYS; WHITE ICE PAINT; PROTECTING RUNWAYS; RUNWAY REPAIR; USAP PEGASUS REPAIR; GLACIAL-ICE SOLAR-ENERGY REFLECTANCE; Antarctic; Ice Runway; McMurdo Station; Antarc*; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA614248; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA614248

The U.S. Antarctic Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar (PLR) is currently in the planning stages of a logistics support project to reestablish an all-season wheeled airfield to service McMurdo Station. In the interim, NSF-PLR is also investigating remedial and triage-t...