The relation between building and wind on the continental ice sheet-The influence of wind descending along the slope on the heat transfer coefficient and the draft-

• Main Author: Katsutoshi Nozaki
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1989
• Subjects: geo; envir; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15094/00008629; https://doaj.org/article/12f849b9045e4e1db926dbb97e8bb6c7

Asuka Station (71°31′S, 24°08′E) on the Antarctic continental ice sheet is one of the stations for the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition. The Station is located in an area where the wind is always descending along the slope. At Asuka Station, heat transfer coefficient on the windward panel has a tendency to increase as the wind speed increases. But the resistance of this heat transfer is negligibly small as compared with that of the heat conduction through a wall panel (140mm thick polystyrene). On the other hand, the volume of draft at all huts (total area 300m^2) is found to increase approximately in proportion to a square of the wind speed.