Geotechnical Study and Foundation Structural Design, Next Generation Ionosonde (NEXION) Installation, Thule Air Base, Greenland

• Main Author: Bjella, Kevin
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB FORT WAINWRIGHT AK
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Atmospheric Physics; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Electrical and Electronic Equipment; Structural Engineering and Building Technology; *ANTENNAS; *FOUNDATIONS(STRUCTURES); *IONOSONDES; *PERMAFROST; AIR FORCE FACILITIES; ARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE; DRAINAGE; ELECTRON DENSITY; EXCAVATION; GEOLOGY; GREENLAND; INSULATION; PLASMAS(PHYSICS); SOILS; FOUNDATION STRUCTURAL DESIGN; FRICTIONAL RESISTANCE; GEOTECHNICAL STUDIES; GLACIOLOGY; GROUND ICE; IONOSPHERIC PLASMA; LATERAL EARTH PRESSURES; *NEXION TOWER; *NEXION(NEXT GENERATION IONOSONDE); SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS; SUBSURFACE SOILS; THERMAL REGIME; THULE AIR BASE; UPLIFT RESISTANCE; Arctic; Greenland; Thule Air Base; Climate change; Ice; permafrost; Thule Air; Thule
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA622109; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA622109

This report presents the results of our geotechnical and structural design for the transmitter antenna of the Next Generation Ionosonde (NEXION) at Thule Air Base, Greenland, for the Space and Missile Systems Center, Remote Sensing Space Environmental Branch, and Air Force Weather. NEXION is a comme...